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Treadmill running in Parkinson disease research

From 2021 to 2025, 45 animal research papers on Parkinson disease mentioned treadmill running in their title or abstract.

That is 1.5 times the 31 papers of 2011 to 2015. Between the same two periods, the papers on Parkinson disease that mention any of the 90 tests we count grew faster, to 1.7 times as many.

45 papers on Parkinson disease from 2021 to 2025 mentioned treadmill running
5% of the papers on Parkinson disease that mention any test mention treadmill running
2% of the papers that mention treadmill running are on Parkinson disease
1.5 times as many papers as in 2011 to 2015

Papers by year

Animal research papers on Parkinson disease that mention treadmill running, by year, 2001 to 2026

The 2026 bar counts papers added to PubMed by November 8, 2026.

  • Papers in a full year
  • 2026 so far
Show the counts for each year
Papers by year
YearPapers
20010
20020
20031
20042
20052
20061
20074
20081
20094
20107
20116
20128
20136
20146
20155
20168
201716
20188
201914
202010
202110
20228
20236
20244
202517
2026 (part year)9

Papers on Parkinson disease that mention treadmill running fell from 10 in 2021 to 4 in 2024, then rose to 17 in 2025. Part of this dip may come from PubMed's indexing rather than from fewer studies. Where PubMed has indexed a paper, we take its disease models from that indexing. Otherwise PubTator 3, NCBI's text-mining service, has to find the disease in the title or abstract, or the paper is not counted here. Papers that PubMed indexed under the subject heading Animals also fell and rose, from 200,221 in 2021 to 156,447 in 2023 and 235,479 in 2025.

Which species the papers used

Each bar is a share of the 45 papers from 2021 to 2025. A paper can use more than one species, so the shares can add to more than 100%.

Species

Rat
23 papers 51%
Mouse
21 papers 47%
Other animals
3 papers 7%

“Other animals” counts papers that use none of the species this chart names.

Tests mentioned alongside treadmill running

Each bar is one test, with how many of the 45 papers also mention it, and what share that is. Of these papers, 28 (62%) mention no other test.

The 12 tests these papers mention most

6 papers 13%
6 papers 13%
4 papers 9%
2 papers 4%
2 papers 4%
1 paper 2%
1 paper 2%
1 paper 2%

Which papers count

A paper counts here when it is animal research, mentions treadmill running in its title or abstract, and studies Parkinson disease.

We tell whether a paper studies Parkinson disease from its MeSH terms, the subject headings the National Library of Medicine adds when it indexes a paper. For a paper without MeSH terms, PubTator 3, NCBI's text-mining service, has to find the disease in the title or abstract. A paper can count under more than one disease model. A paper that mentions the test only in its methods is missed, so the count runs low.

The page on Parkinson disease research names the subject headings we count as Parkinson disease. Download the test list for the search terms we used for treadmill running, or the paper list for the PubMed ID of every paper behind these counts. Our main page, Behavioral tests in published research, has the full method and each source's terms of use.

More tests and disease models

Every pairing of a disease model and a test with 30 or more papers from 2021 to 2025 has a page like this one.

The page on treadmill running counts all the papers that mention it, whatever they study. The page on Parkinson disease research ranks the tests by their papers on Parkinson disease.

How to cite

APA

ConductScience. (2026, November 10). Treadmill running in Parkinson disease research [Data set]. https://conductscience.com/data/behavioral-tests/models/parkinsons-disease/treadmill

BibTeX

@misc{conductscience_parkinsons_disease_treadmill_2026,
  author = {{ConductScience}},
  title = {Treadmill running in Parkinson disease research},
  year = {2026},
  month = nov,
  url = {https://conductscience.com/data/behavioral-tests/models/parkinsons-disease/treadmill},
  note = {Data set, released November 10, 2026},
}

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