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Passive avoidance with PTZ

From 2021 to 2025, 39 animal research papers mentioned PTZ and passive avoidance in their title or abstract.

That is 1.4 times the 27 papers of 2011 to 2015. Between the same two periods, the papers that mention PTZ and any of the 90 tests we count grew more slowly, to 1.1 times as many.

39 animal research papers from 2021 to 2025 mentioned PTZ and passive avoidance
18% of the 212 papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention PTZ and a test mention passive avoidance
3% of the 1,142 papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention passive avoidance also mention PTZ
1.4 times as many papers as in 2011 to 2015

Papers by year

Animal research papers that mention PTZ and passive avoidance, 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
20014
20022
20034
20042
20053
20065
20070
20080
20090
20108
20114
20128
20131
20148
20156
20166
20176
20183
20196
20209
202110
20225
202310
20248
20256
2026 (part year)5

Papers that mention PTZ and passive avoidance fell from 10 in 2021 to 5 in 2022, then rose to 6 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 39 papers from 2021 to 2025. A paper can use more than one species, so the shares can add to more than 100%.

Species

Rat
25 papers 64%
Mouse
11 papers 28%
Zebrafish
3 papers 8%

Tests mentioned alongside passive avoidance

Each bar is one test, with how many of the 39 papers also mention it, and what share that is. Of these papers, 19 (49%) mention no other test.

The 10 tests these papers mention most

12 papers 31%
7 papers 18%
5 papers 13%
4 papers 10%
3 papers 8%
2 papers 5%
1 paper 3%

Which papers count

A paper counts here when it is animal research and its title or abstract mentions PTZ and passive avoidance.

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 passive avoidance counts all the papers that mention it, whatever they study. The page on PTZ ranks the tests mentioned with it.

How to cite

APA

ConductScience. (2026, November 13). Passive avoidance with PTZ [Data set]. https://conductscience.com/resources/data/animal-models/ptz/passive-avoidance

BibTeX

@misc{conductscience_ptz_passive_avoidance_2026,
  author = {{ConductScience}},
  title = {Passive avoidance with PTZ},
  year = {2026},
  month = nov,
  url = {https://conductscience.com/resources/data/animal-models/ptz/passive-avoidance},
  note = {Data set, released November 13, 2026},
}

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