Table 3.

Average Daily Intakes and Preferences of B6 Mice Given Access to Four Combinations of 10% Alcohol and Water for 16 Days (Experiment 3)

	Bottles of alcohol vs. bottles of water
Measure	1 vs. 5	3 vs. 3	5 vs. 1	1 vs. 1
10% Alcohol intake (ml)	2.7 ± 0.4^a	4.4 ± 0.4^bc	5.2 ± 0.1^c	3.8 ± 0.4^ab
Alcohol intake (g/kg BW)	11.0 ± 1.5^a	16.3 ± 1.6^bc	19.2 ± 0.6^c	14.1 ± 1.5^ab
Water intake (ml)	2.8 ± 0.4^c	2.3 ± 0.5^bc	0.7 ± 0.2^a	1.5 ± 0.4^ab
Total fluid intake (ml)	5.5 ± 0.2^a	6.7 ± 0.7^a	5.9 ± 0.2^a	5.3 ± 0.2^a
10% alcohol preference (%)	45 ± 7^a	66 ± 8^b	89 ± 2^c	72 ± 7^b

Values are means ± SEM (n = 12/group). BW, body weight. Values with the same superscripts did not differ significantly from each other.