Table 1.

Baseline activity of animals used in the study

	Bar test (immobility time in seconds)	Drag test (number of steps)	Rotarod test (time on rod in seconds)
6-OHDA rats (n = 32)			479 ± 31^**
Ipsilateral	16.8 ± 1.7	11.4 ± 0.2
Contralateral	30.8 ± 2.6^*	2.5 ± 0.2^*
Naive rats^{^a}	1.2 ± 0.1	11.8 ± 0.2	1138 ± 61
MPTP-treated mice (n = 27)	11.6 ± 2.1^**	11.1 ± 0.3^**	589 ± 25^**
Naive mice (n = 8)	0.5 ± 0.1	14.1 ± 0.5	850 ± 22
Naive NOP^+/+ mice (n = 14)	nt	13.9 ± 0.6	nt
Naive NOP^−/− mice (n = 12)	nt	17.1 ± 0.6^**	nt

The number of animals used to generate the data is indicated in parentheses. Data have been analysed using the Student's t test for unpaired data.
↵*p < 0.01, different from the ipsilateral side;
↵**p < 0.01, different from naive control animals. nt, Not tested.
↵^aTaken from Marti et al. (2008).