TABLE 3.

Magnitude of the effects of strain and maintenance diet and their interaction on fluid intake and preference scores of B6 and 129 mice¹

		Dependent variable
Compound tested		Water intake	Solution intake	Total intake	Preference score
Main effect of strain (df = 1 and 178)
	2 mmol/L saccharin	99.9*****	396.5*****	176.7*****	267.9*****
	5 mmol/L citric acid	4.1*	3.3	0.0	6.2*
	30 μmol/L QHCl	3.5	3.0	0.8	0.0
	75 mmol/L NaCl	26.4*****	74.9*****	14.1***	80.0*****
	10% ETOH	264.8*****	331.6*****	3.1	568.4*****
Main effect of diet (df = 5 and 178)
	2 mmol/L saccharin	0.7	16.4*****	16.9*****	0.7
	5 mmol/L citric acid	17.4*****	1.7	13.9*****	1.3
	30 μmol/L QHCl	6.3****	3.9**	6.2****	5.3***
	75 mmol/L NaCl	5.1***	0.8	4.1**	2.8*
	10% ETOH	2.1	8.9*****	4.5***	6.7****
Strain × diet interaction (df = 5 and 178)
	2 mmol/L saccharin	3.8**	10.9*****	5.0***	3.1*
	5 mmol/L citric acid	4.5***	0.5	2.7*	2.5*
	30 μmol/L QHCl	1.9	0.8	1.0	2.0
	75 mmol/L NaCl	2.6*	1.4	1.3	3.4**
	10% ETOH	5.5***	6.4****	1.4	5.5**

¹Numbers in the body of the table are F-values obtained from omnibus ANOVA:

^*P < 0.05;

^**P < 0.01;

^***P < 0.001;

^****P < 0.0001;

^*****P < 0.00001;