Table 3.

Blood ethanol concentrations (BECs; mg/dL) taken 3 h after a 3.5 g/kg i.p. ethanol injection in 3, 9, 18, and 24 month old males (♂E) and females (♀E). Vehicle samples were also assessed (16.27±1.27 collapsed across age and sex) but are not displayed in the table. Latency to lose the right reflex (LORR; min) is also shown for the ethanol-injected animals; time asleep is not shown as none of the animals awoke prior to tissue collection. Plasma corticosterone (μg/mL) and progesterone (ng/mL) are displayed for 3, 9, 18, and 24 month old males that received either vehicle or ethanol (♂V, ♂E), and females that received either vehicle or ethanol (♂V, ♂E).

Measure		3 months old	9 months old	18 months old	24 months old
BECs	♂E ♀E	385.20±13.22 335.14±12.16	376.98±12.79 376.30±14.12	382.20±6.07 370.74±13.56	364.33±10.66 392.90±17
Latency to LORR	♂E ♀E	2.27±0.10 5.60±3.08	8.50±6.06 11.68±3.08	2.51±0.15 2.15±0.14	2.63±0.09 2.29±0.22
CORT Plasma	♂V ♂E ♀V ♀E	9.58±2.83 51.24±3.41 10.38±7.39 70.08±5.35	15.24±4.72 54.13±3.57 15.49±3.78 68.66±3.16	24.35±6.57 59.66±3.71 19.59±6.05 80.84±4.70	13.67±4.20 57.60±5.90 18.18±5.00 67.00±7.08
PROG Plasma	♂V ♂E ♀V ♀E	0.22±0.14 5.94±0.43 5.75±1.26 9.12±0.23	0.02±0.02 5.48±0.93 5.26±0.87 9.06±0.54	3.94±1.15 8.19±0.62 7.94±1.03 9.42±0.40	3.49±1.43 8.74±0.49 6.64±1.22 8.78±0.84