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Diabetes
From 2021 to 2025, 795 animal research papers on diabetes mentioned at least one behavioral test, most often the Morris water maze.
That is 1.9 times the 413 papers of 2011 to 2015. Between the same two periods, all the animal research papers that mention any of the 90 tests we count grew more slowly, to 1.2 times as many.
The tests these papers mention
Treadmill running appears in 14% of the papers on diabetes and in 6.5% of all 32,277 papers that mention a test. That makes it 2.2 times as common in this research. Each bar is one test, with how many of the 795 papers from 2021 to 2025 on diabetes mention it, and what share that is. A paper that mentions two tests counts under both.
The 15 tests these papers mention most
All 58 tests these papers mention
| Test | Papers | Share of the 795 papers on diabetes | Share of all 32,277 papers that mention a test |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morris water maze | 269 | 34% | 17% |
| Treadmill running | 114 | 14% | 6% |
| Novel object recognition | 91 | 11% | 9% |
| Open field | 72 | 9% | 12% |
| Y-maze | 71 | 9% | 6% |
| Elevated plus maze | 70 | 9% | 9% |
| Von Frey test | 63 | 8% | 4% |
| Grip strength | 57 | 7% | 4% |
| Forced swim test | 52 | 7% | 9% |
| Passive avoidance | 41 | 5% | 4% |
| Hot plate | 41 | 5% | 2% |
| Rotarod | 29 | 4% | 6% |
| Tail flick | 28 | 4% | 2% |
| Wheel running | 20 | 3% | 3% |
| Fear conditioning | 19 | 2% | 6% |
| Hargreaves plantar test | 17 | 2% | 1% |
| Formalin test | 16 | 2% | 2% |
| Tail suspension test | 15 | 2% | 4% |
| Barnes maze | 11 | 1% | 2% |
| Sucrose preference test | 10 | 1% | 5% |
| T-maze | 10 | 1% | 1% |
| Cold plate | 8 | 1% | under 1% |
| Writhing test | 7 | 1% | 2% |
| Self-administration | 7 | 1% | 4% |
| Object location test | 7 | 1% | 1% |
| Hole-board | 7 | 1% | 1% |
| Radial arm maze | 6 | 1% | 1% |
| Light-dark box | 6 | 1% | 2% |
| Wire hang and inverted grid | 6 | 1% | 1% |
| Gait analysis | 6 | 1% | 3% |
| Acetone test | 6 | 1% | under 1% |
| Beam walking | 5 | 1% | 2% |
| Operant conditioning | 5 | 1% | 3% |
| Nest building | 3 | under 1% | 1% |
| Attentional set shifting | 3 | under 1% | under 1% |
| Step-down avoidance | 3 | under 1% | under 1% |
| Novelty-suppressed feeding | 3 | under 1% | 1% |
| Conditioned place preference | 3 | under 1% | 3% |
| Negative geotaxis and climbing assays | 3 | under 1% | 1% |
| Three-chamber sociability test | 2 | under 1% | 1% |
| Active avoidance (shuttle box) | 2 | under 1% | 1% |
| Adhesive removal test | 2 | under 1% | under 1% |
| Marble burying | 2 | under 1% | 1% |
| Pole test | 2 | under 1% | under 1% |
| Novel tank test | 2 | under 1% | 1% |
| Catalepsy bar test | 1 | under 1% | 1% |
| Puzzle box | 1 | under 1% | under 1% |
| Social interaction test | 1 | under 1% | 1% |
| Thermal gradient and temperature preference | 1 | under 1% | under 1% |
| Grid walking (foot fault) | 1 | under 1% | under 1% |
| Rotational behavior (rotometer) | 1 | under 1% | under 1% |
| Paw pressure test | 1 | under 1% | under 1% |
| Resident-intruder test | 1 | under 1% | under 1% |
| Ladder rung walking | 1 | under 1% | under 1% |
| Olfactory tests | 1 | under 1% | under 1% |
| Splash test | 1 | under 1% | under 1% |
| Radial arm water maze | 1 | under 1% | under 1% |
| Self-grooming | 1 | under 1% | 1% |
Papers by year
Animal research papers on diabetes that mention a behavioral 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
| Year | Papers |
|---|---|
| 2001 | 12 |
| 2002 | 22 |
| 2003 | 27 |
| 2004 | 26 |
| 2005 | 36 |
| 2006 | 25 |
| 2007 | 39 |
| 2008 | 34 |
| 2009 | 40 |
| 2010 | 50 |
| 2011 | 72 |
| 2012 | 70 |
| 2013 | 71 |
| 2014 | 97 |
| 2015 | 103 |
| 2016 | 91 |
| 2017 | 108 |
| 2018 | 136 |
| 2019 | 139 |
| 2020 | 157 |
| 2021 | 151 |
| 2022 | 171 |
| 2023 | 166 |
| 2024 | 160 |
| 2025 | 147 |
| 2026 (part year) | 146 |
Which species the papers used
Each bar is a share of the 795 papers from 2021 to 2025. A paper can use more than one species, so the shares can add to more than 100%.
Species
“Other animals” counts papers that use none of the species this chart names.
Which papers count
A paper counts here when it is animal research, mentions at least one of the 90 tests and studies diabetes.
MeSH terms are the subject headings the National Library of Medicine adds when it indexes a paper. A paper counts under diabetes when its MeSH terms include this heading.
- Diabetes Mellitus, with the headings under it
For a paper without MeSH terms, PubTator 3, NCBI's text-mining service, supplies the disease model when it finds the disease in the title or abstract. A paper can count under more than one disease model.
Our main page, Behavioral tests in published research, has the full method and each source's terms of use. Its downloads list each paper and its disease models.
More disease models
These disease models also have a page, with their papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention a test. Each disease model with 100 or more such papers gets one.
- Cognitive impairment and dementia 4,961 papers
- Anxiety 3,041 papers
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- Pain conditions 2,617 papers
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- Substance use disorders 1,599 papers
- Psychological stress 1,484 papers
- Stroke and brain ischemia 1,278 papers
- Parkinson disease 918 papers
- Brain injury 841 papers
- Obesity and high-fat diet 761 papers
- Aging 700 papers
- Epilepsy and seizures 572 papers
- Autism spectrum disorder 484 papers
- Schizophrenia and psychosis 401 papers
- Sleep loss and sleep disorders 400 papers
- Post-traumatic stress 392 papers
- Spinal cord injury 382 papers
- Multiple sclerosis and demyelination 223 papers
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 108 papers
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder 107 papers
How to cite
APA
ConductScience. (2026, November 10). Behavioral tests in diabetes research [Data set]. https://conductscience.com/resources/data/behavioral-tests/models/diabetes
BibTeX
@misc{conductscience_diabetes_2026,
author = {{ConductScience}},
title = {Behavioral tests in diabetes research},
year = {2026},
month = nov,
url = {https://conductscience.com/resources/data/behavioral-tests/models/diabetes},
note = {Data set, released November 10, 2026},
}Shop apparatus by test
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- Morris water maze
- Treadmill running
- Novel object recognition
- Open field
- Y-maze
- Elevated plus maze
- Von Frey test
- Grip strength
- Forced swim test
- Passive avoidance
