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Pole test with MPTP

From 2021 to 2025, 69 animal research papers mentioned MPTP and the pole test in their title or abstract.

That is 3.0 times the 23 papers of 2011 to 2015. Between the same two periods, the papers that mention MPTP and any of the 90 tests we count grew more slowly, to 1.7 times as many.

69 animal research papers from 2021 to 2025 mentioned MPTP and the pole test
28% of the 249 papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention MPTP and a test mention the pole test
43% of the 161 papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention the pole test also mention MPTP
3.0 times as many papers as in 2011 to 2015

Papers by year

Animal research papers that mention MPTP and the pole 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
Show the counts for each year
Papers by year
YearPapers
20010
20020
20030
20043
20054
20061
20072
20080
20093
20104
20111
20129
20134
20143
20156
201610
20172
201814
201913
20205
202115
202214
20234
202416
202520
2026 (part year)13

Papers that mention MPTP and the pole test fell from 15 in 2021 to 4 in 2023, then rose to 20 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 69 papers from 2021 to 2025. A paper can use more than one species, so the shares can add to more than 100%.

Species

Mouse
68 papers 99%
Rat
4 papers 6%

Tests mentioned alongside the pole test

Each bar is one test, with how many of the 69 papers also mention it, and what share that is. Of these papers, 11 (16%) mention no other test.

The 12 tests these papers mention most

35 papers 51%
23 papers 33%
7 papers 10%
7 papers 10%
3 papers 4%
2 papers 3%
1 paper 1%

Which papers count

A paper counts here when it is animal research and its title or abstract mentions MPTP and the pole 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 pole test counts all the papers that mention it, whatever they study. The page on MPTP ranks the tests mentioned with it.

How to cite

APA

ConductScience. (2026, November 13). Pole test with MPTP [Data set]. https://conductscience.com/resources/data/animal-models/mptp/pole-test

BibTeX

@misc{conductscience_mptp_pole_test_2026,
  author = {{ConductScience}},
  title = {Pole test with MPTP},
  year = {2026},
  month = nov,
  url = {https://conductscience.com/resources/data/animal-models/mptp/pole-test},
  note = {Data set, released November 13, 2026},
}

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