Fig. 2.

Measures of relative food and water intake. (A) Unrestricted daily food consumption was measured prior to brief sucrose preference tests. As previously reported, autoimmune MRL-lpr mice consumed less food than untreated congenic controls (Ballok et al., 2003b). Suramin, however, significantly reduced food intake in MRL +/+ animals which is likely related to metabolic differences between the substrains. (B) Unrestricted daily water intake was measured prior to brief sucrose preference tests. No difference in the amount of water ingested was found in comparisons between the groups.