Figure 5. Taste control experiments show that the increase in alcohol intake in mice with CeA 14-3-3ζ knockdown is not secondary to altered taste sensitivity.

Control mice and mice with CeA 14-3-3ζ knockdown showed equal intake of solutions containing A the caloric sweet tastant sucrose and B the non-caloric sweet tastant saccharin. C Aversion for the bitter tastant quinine was also not different between controls and mice with CeA 14-3-3ζ knockdown.