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. 2021 Apr 21;11:8665. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-88088-9

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Performance and swimming strategies in the Morris water maze test in sham, non-epileptic, and epileptic animals at week 9. (A) Performance in the Morris water maze test. No differences were observed in the time to find the platform (in seconds) during Morris water maze training days at week 9 of the experiment between sham (n = 12), non-epileptic (n = 8), and epileptic (n = 7) animals (a1) (mean ± SD). (B) Analysis of swimming strategy on the Morris water maze test day using RODA software. The epileptic group (n = 7) exhibited a decrease in the number of sections where they presented a scanning (SC) strategy at week 9 compared with the sham group (n = 12). *p < 0.05 (mean ± SEM). (C) Comparison of scanning and incursion strategies in the Morris water maze. A higher proportion of scanning (SC) to incursion (IC) was observed in the sham group (n = 12) compared with the epileptic group (n = 7) at week 9. *p < 0.05 (c1, c3). No differences were observed between sham and non-epileptic animals (n = 8) (c1, c2) (mean ± SD).