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Rotarod in multiple sclerosis and demyelination research

From 2021 to 2025, 66 animal research papers on multiple sclerosis and demyelination mentioned the rotarod in their title or abstract.

That is 3.9 times the 17 papers of 2011 to 2015. Between the same two periods, the papers on multiple sclerosis and demyelination that mention any of the 90 tests we count grew more slowly, to 3.4 times as many.

66 papers on multiple sclerosis and demyelination from 2021 to 2025 mentioned the rotarod
30% of the papers on multiple sclerosis and demyelination that mention any test mention the rotarod
4% of the papers that mention the rotarod are on multiple sclerosis and demyelination
3.9 times as many papers as in 2011 to 2015

Papers by year

Animal research papers on multiple sclerosis and demyelination that mention the rotarod, 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
20033
20041
20051
20062
20072
20083
20092
20101
20113
20122
20135
20142
20155
20165
20176
20188
20197
20206
20216
202216
202315
20249
202520
2026 (part year)16

Which species the papers used

Each bar is a share of the 66 papers from 2021 to 2025. A paper can use more than one species, so the shares can add to more than 100%.

Species

Mouse
52 papers 79%
Rat
18 papers 27%
Zebrafish
1 paper 2%

Tests mentioned alongside the rotarod

Each bar is one test, with how many of the 66 papers also mention it, and what share that is. Of these papers, 32 (48%) mention no other test.

The 12 tests these papers mention most

13 papers 20%
5 papers 8%
4 papers 6%
4 papers 6%
3 papers 5%
3 papers 5%
2 papers 3%

Which papers count

A paper counts here when it is animal research, mentions the rotarod in its title or abstract, and studies multiple sclerosis and demyelination.

We tell whether a paper studies multiple sclerosis and demyelination from its MeSH terms, the subject headings the National Library of Medicine adds when it indexes a paper. For a paper without MeSH terms, PubTator 3, NCBI's text-mining service, has to find the disease in the title or abstract. A paper can count under more than one disease model. A paper that mentions the test only in its methods is missed, so the count runs low.

The page on multiple sclerosis and demyelination research names the subject headings we count as multiple sclerosis and demyelination. Download the test list for the search terms we used for the rotarod, or the paper list for the PubMed ID of every paper behind these counts. Our main page, Behavioral tests in published research, has the full method and each source's terms of use.

More tests and disease models

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

Papers on multiple sclerosis and demyelination that mention other tests

The page on the rotarod counts all the papers that mention it, whatever they study. The page on multiple sclerosis and demyelination research ranks the tests by their papers on multiple sclerosis and demyelination.

How to cite

APA

ConductScience. (2026, November 10). Rotarod in multiple sclerosis and demyelination research [Data set]. https://conductscience.com/resources/data/behavioral-tests/models/multiple-sclerosis/rotarod

BibTeX

@misc{conductscience_multiple_sclerosis_rotarod_2026,
  author = {{ConductScience}},
  title = {Rotarod in multiple sclerosis and demyelination research},
  year = {2026},
  month = nov,
  url = {https://conductscience.com/resources/data/behavioral-tests/models/multiple-sclerosis/rotarod},
  note = {Data set, released November 10, 2026},
}

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