Long-Term Provision of Acidified Drinking Water Fails to Influence Autoimmune Diabetes and Encephalomyelitis

Table 1

Lack of influence of acidified drinking water on diabetes induction in older mice regardless of exposure to mycobacterial antigens.

Treatment	12 weeks CFA	16 weeks CFA
Neutral water	6.6 ± 6.6% (0%, 0%, 20%) ()	45 ± 5.0% (40%, 50%) ()
Acidic water	5.0 ± 5.0% (0%, 10%) ()	45 ± 8.3% (40%, 50%, 60%) ()

Mean ± SE of diabetes incidence is shown. Diabetes incidence in individual experiments and numbers of mice are shown in parentheses. values as determined using the unpaired two-tailed Student’s t-test between 12- and 16-week time points in corresponding groups were and .