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PLOS ONE
Volume 14, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0219167
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- Plan Nacional I+ D+ i (The Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness) [DEP2010-22205-C02-01, DEP2013-48334-C2-1-P]
- Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness [BES-2011-044293]
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In this study, we propose a novel three-criteria performance score to semiquantitatively classify the running style, the degree of involvement and compliance and the validity of electric shock count for rats exercising on a treadmill. Each score criterion has several style-marks that are based on the observational registry of male Sprague-Dawley rats running for 4-7 weeks. Each mark was given a score value that was averaged throughout a session-registry and resulting in a session score for each criterion, ranging from 0 score for a hypothetical worst runner, to score 1 for a hypothetical perfect runner rat. We found significant differences throughout a training program, thus providing evidence of sufficient sensitivity of this score to reflect the individual evolution of performance improvement in exercise capacity due to training. We hypothesize that this score could be correlated with other physiological or metabolic parameters, thus refining research results and further helping researchers to reduce the number of experimental subjects.
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