Table 1.

Changes to body weight of alcoholic and control mice following muscle injury

	Body weights (g)
	Pre-injury	Post-injury day 2	Post-injury day 7	Post-injury day 14
Control	26.9 + 0.3	26.5 + 0.6	28.6 + 0.3	27.1 + 0.3
Ethanol	27.4 + 0.4	24.9 + 0.4 #	25.7 + 0.3 *, #	26.6 + 0.1

Alcohol-fed mice experienced a significant decrease in body weight at 2 and 7 days following muscle injury – an effect not apparent in injured, control-fed mice. However, injured alcohol-fed mice returned to their pre-injury body weight after 14 days of recovery from BaCl₂ injection. Significance was accepted at p ≤ 0.05. *, compared to control-fed, injured group. #, compared to EtOH-fed, uninjured group.