Table 4.

Average Daily Intakes and Preferences of B6 Mice Given Access to Either One Bottle of 10% Alcohol and One of Water or Five Bottles of 10% Alcohol and One of Water for 24 Days (Experiment 4)

	Bottles of alcohol vs. bottles of water
Measure	1 vs. 1	5 vs. 1
10% Alcohol intake (ml)	3.1 ± 0.3	7.7 ± 1.5*
Alcohol intake (g/kg BW)	9.4 ± 0.8	23.4 ± 4.4*
Water intake (ml)	2.6 ± 0.3	3.5 ± 1.1
Total fluid intake (ml)	5.7 ± 0.2	11.2 ± 2.5*
10% alcohol preference (%)	55 ± 4	76 ± 4*

Values are means ± SEM (n = 12/group). BW, body weight.

^*p < 0.001 relative to 1-vs.-1 group.