Traction test

TRACTION TEST 
  • Mice are suspended by means of their forepaws to a metallic wire, stretched horizontally.
  • The normal mouse effects a better posture in less than 5 seconds. The number of animals that are incapable of touching the wire with at least one of the hind paws.
  • Thus the animals being inhibited from touching the wire with a hind paw is within 5 seconds after the placement on the wire is taken as positive and 30 minutes after the injection of a drug.

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