[Anxiety models on mice: experimental evaluation and criticism of the method].
The analysis of publications in the field of experimental psychopharmacology (in particular, anxiety models) shows a lack of data concerning the general methodological problems such as reproducibility and reliability of data. There are only a few works where important characteristics concerning solution pH, sham injections, body temperature, locomotion indices (basal and injection-modulated), etc, are reported. Figures on the illumination level in experimental chambers are generally missing. Three simplest, fastest, and most commonly used anxiety models (dark-light compartments, social isolation test, elevated plus-maze) are considered with special attention to the mistakes and artifacts most frequently encountered in registration of the experimental animal behavior and in the data interpretation.
Bekhterev Psychoneurological Institute, Petersburg, Russia.
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D000818:Animals; D001007:Anxiety; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D051379:Mice; D010600:Pharmacology