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Male Wistar rats were trained in the PMDAT (plus-maze with two open and two enclosed arms) using a standard or a modified protocol.

In the standard protocol, the aversive stimuli were presented in one of the enclosed arms during training, and the animal had free access to the whole apparatus.

(More anxious mice, in contrast, prefer the safety of the enclosed arms of the maze). And, just like people with this same gene, they showed similar changes in the neural circuits involved in anxiety and fear.

We found that compared to WT mice, mu-opioid receptor KO mice showed enhanced anxiolytic activity to CDP, including increased number of entries into open arm, increased percentage of the time spent in open arms, and decreased percentage of the time spent in enclosed arms in the elevated plus-maze test.

During a 5 min test period, the number of open and enclosed arms entries and the time spent in open & enclosed arms was recorded.

Sixty min after administration of the test extract and drugs, each animal was placed at the center of the maze facing one of the enclosed arms.

The animals were released from the central platform, with their face pointing toward an enclosed arm.

To test this possibility, we examined whether locomotor distance was correlated with opened and enclosed arm entries.

Although a significant correlation was found between locomotor distance and enclosed arm entries, there was no correlation between locomotor distance and opened arm entries (Fig. 3h), suggesting that increased opened arm entries may not be due to hyperlocomotion, whereas increased enclosed arm entries may be associated with hyperlocomotion (Fig. 3j).

The number of opened arm entries relative to enclosed arm entries is thought to be correlated with anxiety level, with increase/decrease of opened arm entries expressing less/more anxiety.

The rats were placed individually on the central square of the plus maze facing an enclosed arm.