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Prepulse inhibition and acoustic startle with maternal immune activation

From 2021 to 2025, 41 animal research papers mentioned maternal immune activation and prepulse inhibition and acoustic startle in their title or abstract.

That is 1.9 times the 22 papers of 2011 to 2015. Between the same two periods, the papers that mention maternal immune activation and any of the 90 tests we count grew faster, to 2.5 times as many.

41 animal research papers from 2021 to 2025 mentioned maternal immune activation and prepulse inhibition and acoustic startle
40% of the 103 papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention maternal immune activation and a test mention prepulse inhibition and acoustic startle
5% of the 804 papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention prepulse inhibition and acoustic startle also mention maternal immune activation
1.9 times as many papers as in 2011 to 2015

Papers by year

Animal research papers that mention maternal immune activation and prepulse inhibition and acoustic startle, 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
20040
20051
20062
20072
20082
20092
20103
20115
20123
20133
20146
20155
20168
20172
20189
20196
20206
202111
20228
202310
20248
20254
2026 (part year)3

Which species the papers used

Each bar is a share of the 41 papers from 2021 to 2025. A paper can use more than one species, so the shares can add to more than 100%.

Species

Rat
27 papers 66%
Mouse
13 papers 32%
Other animals
2 papers 5%

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

Tests mentioned alongside prepulse inhibition and acoustic startle

Each bar is one test, with how many of the 41 papers also mention it, and what share that is. Of these papers, 25 (61%) mention no other test.

The 12 tests these papers mention most

Which papers count

A paper counts here when it is animal research and its title or abstract mentions maternal immune activation and prepulse inhibition and acoustic startle.

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.

Prepulse inhibition and acoustic startle with other animal models

The page on prepulse inhibition and acoustic startle counts all the papers that mention it, whatever they study. The page on maternal immune activation ranks the tests mentioned with it.

How to cite

APA

ConductScience. (2026, November 13). Prepulse inhibition and acoustic startle with maternal immune activation [Data set]. https://conductscience.com/resources/data/animal-models/maternal-immune-activation/prepulse-inhibition

BibTeX

@misc{conductscience_maternal_immune_activation_prepulse_inhibition_2026,
  author = {{ConductScience}},
  title = {Prepulse inhibition and acoustic startle with maternal immune activation},
  year = {2026},
  month = nov,
  url = {https://conductscience.com/resources/data/animal-models/maternal-immune-activation/prepulse-inhibition},
  note = {Data set, released November 13, 2026},
}