digestive/alimentary system
• mice exhibit colonic perforations and typhlocolitis
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• mice exhibit typhlocolitis
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immune system
• mice exhibit typhlocolitis
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• mice are more sensitive to typhlocolitis induced by H. hepaticus than wild-type mice with a more rapid onset of diarrhea, enlargement and thickening of the colon, thickening of the mucosa characterized by extensive ulcerations, elongated irregularly shaped glands and crypt abscesses, lamina propria fibrosis and infiltration granulation tissue, dilated lymphatics, and multifocal necrotizing vasculitis with thrombosis, and expanded submucosa and serosa with infiltration
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