Figure 5.

Both alcohol AUC and peak blood alcohol values correlate well with an acute outcome of alcohol exposure in mice, a stress response resulting in increased serum corticosterone. The numbers near each symbol represent the dose of alcohol (g/kg of body weight) by gavage (Carson and Pruett, 1996). The r² value for AUC is 0.980, and the r² value for peak alcohol concentration is 0.930, and both of the slopes of both lines are significantly different from 0. The solid lines represent the regression line calculated for the values shown and the dotted lines are the upper and lower 95% confidence intervals.