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. 2017 Jan 27;312(4):R597–R610. doi: 10.1152/ajpregu.00433.2016

Fig. 3.

Fig. 3.

Some, but not all, taste stimuli elicited cephalic-phase insulin release (CPIR) in B6 mice (experiment 3). We defined CPIR as a significant increase in plasma insulin concentration (i.e., Δ plasma insulin concentration) within 5 min of initiating licking for the taste stimulus, based on a one-sample t-test (P < 0.05). For each stimulus, we represent scores from each mouse as a circle, and the mean score as a horizontal line. We use closed circles for taste stimuli that elicited CPIR (i.e., glucose, sucrose, maltose, and Polycose), and open circles for taste stimuli that did not elicit CPIR. We compare mean CPIR magnitude across glucose, sucrose, maltose, and Polycose with a Tukey-type multiple comparison test. The means that differ significantly from one another lack a shared letter (i.e., a, b, or c) above them (P < 0.05). We use the following abbreviations for each taste stimulus: glucose (Gluc), sucrose (Sucro), maltose (Malt), Polycose (Poly), fructose (Fruc), α-methyl-d-glucopyranoside (MDG), saccharin (Sacc), acesulfame potassium (Ace K), sucralose (Sucra), and SC45647 (SC).