. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Jul 27.

Published in final edited form as: Chem Senses. 2007 Jun 12;32(7):655–671. doi: 10.1093/chemse/bjm034

Table 6.

Part 2—number of mice in each age group, body weights, food intakes, and water intakes

Condition and age (weeks)		Group size		Body weight (g)		Food intake (kcal/d)		Water intake (ml/day)
		B6	129	C57BL/6J	129X1/SvJ	C57BL/6J	129X1/SvJ	C57BL/6J	129X1/SvJ
Males fed Teklad 8604
	54	15	15	35.2 ± 0.7^a	31.5 ± 1.0^a	10.1 ± 0.2^a	9.7 ± 0.4^a	5.3 ± 0.2^a	4.4 ± 0.1^a
	75	12	15	37.4 ± 1.9^a	28.6 ± 0.8^a	10.0 ± 0.7^a	9.9 ± 0.4^a	5.2 ± 0.2^a	4.5 ± 0.2^a
	100	15	12	36.8 ± 1.4^a	30.5 ± 0.7^a	9.9 ± 0.2^a	11.7 ± 0.6^a	4.6 ± 0.3^a	4.2 ± 0.3^a
Females fed Teklad 8604
	54	14	15	27.3 ± 0.6^a	24.1 ± 0.6^a	8.8 ± 0.4^a	7.4 ± 0.4^a	4.9 ± 0.2^a	3.9 ± 0.3^a
	75	12	13	33.9 ± 1.2^b	22.3 ± 0.5^a	11.8 ± 0.5^a,^b	7.4 ± 0.5^a	5.9 ± 0.2^a,^b	3.6 ± 0.3^a
	100	14	9	32.4 ± 1.1^b	24.9 ± 1.2^a	11.9 ± 1.0^b	9.0 ± 0.8^a	6.4 ± 0.3^b	4.7 ± 0.4^a
Males fed AIN-93G
	54	16	15	48.4 ± 0.9^a	36.5 ± 2.0^a	12.4 ± 0.6^a	11.2 ± 0.5^a	4.5 ± 0.2^a	4.6 ± 0.4^a
	75	14	13	52.0 ± 0.8^a	35.0 ± 2.1^a	15.2 ± 0.7^b	10.0 ± 0.5^a	4.8 ± 0.4^a	5.2 ± 0.4^a
	100	9	8	51.8 ± 2.6^a	29.3 ± 1.7^a	13.3 ± 0.8^a^b	8.7 ± 0.8^a	4.4 ± 0.5^a	5.3 ± 1.6^a

Letter superscripts show homogenous groups of mice according to strain and dependent variable. For each of the 3 conditions in each column, groups with the same letter do not differ significantly from each other, according to post hoc Tukey's tests (P < 0.01).