12057 IUPAC Gold Book - surface righting test 10.1351/goldbook.12057 12057 current 1 Test animal is placed on its back and the time to retain an uprate position with four paws in contact with the surface is measured. This may be used to study development. PAC, 2015, 87, 841. 'IUPAC Glossary of terms used in neurotoxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2015)' on page 903 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2015-0103) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/12057/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/12057/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/12057/plain Citation: 'surface righting test' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.12057 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-07-26T06:25:38+00:00