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Tail suspension test with LPS

From 2021 to 2025, 134 animal research papers mentioned LPS and the tail suspension test in their title or abstract.

That is 3.9 times the 34 papers of 2011 to 2015. Between the same two periods, the papers that mention LPS and any of the 90 tests we count grew more slowly, to 2.8 times as many.

134 animal research papers from 2021 to 2025 mentioned LPS and the tail suspension test
15% of the 876 papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention LPS and a test mention the tail suspension test
10% of the 1,405 papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention the tail suspension test also mention LPS
3.9 times as many papers as in 2011 to 2015

Papers by year

Animal research papers that mention LPS and the tail suspension test, 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
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Papers by year
YearPapers
20010
20020
20030
20040
20051
20061
20071
20082
20091
20104
20114
20123
20135
20149
201513
201622
201717
201822
201928
202028
202127
202229
202322
202427
202529
2026 (part year)37

Papers that mention LPS and the tail suspension test fell from 27 in 2021 to 22 in 2023, then rose to 29 in 2025. Part of this dip may come from PubMed's indexing rather than from fewer studies. We take a paper's species from PubMed's indexing when the indexing names one. Otherwise PubTator 3, NCBI's text-mining service, has to find a species in the title or abstract, or the paper is not counted. 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 134 papers from 2021 to 2025. A paper can use more than one species, so the shares can add to more than 100%.

Species

Mouse
129 papers 96%
Rat
7 papers 5%
Zebrafish
1 paper 1%
Other animals
1 paper 1%

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

Tests mentioned alongside the tail suspension test

Each bar is one test, with how many of the 134 papers also mention it, and what share that is. Of these papers, 8 (6%) mention no other test.

The 12 tests these papers mention most

97 papers 72%
50 papers 37%
23 papers 17%
6 papers 4%
5 papers 4%
3 papers 2%
2 papers 1%

Which papers count

A paper counts here when it is animal research and its title or abstract mentions LPS and the tail suspension test.

A paper that mentions either only in its methods is missed, so the count runs low. The search terms are in the list of models and techniques and the test list. The full method, with each source and its terms of use, is on our main page, Behavioral tests in published research.

More pairings

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

The page on the tail suspension test counts all the papers that mention it, whatever they study. The page on LPS ranks the tests mentioned with it.

How to cite

APA

ConductScience. (2026, November 13). Tail suspension test with LPS [Data set]. https://conductscience.com/resources/data/animal-models/lps/tail-suspension-test

BibTeX

@misc{conductscience_lps_tail_suspension_test_2026,
  author = {{ConductScience}},
  title = {Tail suspension test with LPS},
  year = {2026},
  month = nov,
  url = {https://conductscience.com/resources/data/animal-models/lps/tail-suspension-test},
  note = {Data set, released November 13, 2026},
}

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