mortality/aging
• mutants and wild-type mice treated with streptozotocin to induce diabetes display significantly increased mortality after 12 months of disease compared to untreated controls
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vision/eye
• at 2 weeks after laser injury, volume of choroidal neovascularization (CNV) is reducedby ~67.0% compared to wild-type mice
• mutants have markedly smaller CNV membranes 2 weeks after injury compared to wild-type
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• in the galactose- and streptozotocin-induced diabetes models, after 11 months, mutants have fewer adherent leukocytes in the retina compared to diabetic controls; number of adherent leukocytes in the retina in 11-month diabetic mutants does not differ from number in non-diabetic controls
(J:118466)
• diabetic wild-type mice at 11 months of disease have a 3.1-fold increase in adherent leukocyte number compared with non-diabetic controls
(J:118466)
• compared to diabetic wild-type controls, number of endothelial cells in diabetic mutants are higher and comparable to non-diabetic wild-type controls
(J:118466)
• 11-month diabetic wild-type mice have 3.8-fold more acellular capillaries compared to non-diabetic controls; in diabetic mutants, this pathology is suppressed by 60% with number of acellular capillaries similar to that in non-diabetic wild-type controls
(J:118466)
• at 11 months, numbers of normal appearing pericytes in retinas of diabetic mutants are significantly greater than number in diabetic wild-type controls
(J:118466)
• at 22 months, galactosemic mutants show almost no endothelial cell loss, no pericyte loss, and less acellular capillary formation (by 60%) than galactosemic wild-type controls compared to euglycemic wild-type mice
(J:118466)
• no basement membrane thickening is observed in diabetic and galactosemic mutants compared to that observed in diabetic and galactosemic wild-type controls
(J:118466)
• following laser photocoagulation (1,2, and 4 weeks after), significantly less pathologically significant leakage (fewer grade-2B lesions) develops in mutants compared to wild-type
(J:119416)
• less mice have 3 or more grade-2B lesions in each eye compared with wild-type
(J:119416)
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• in diabetes models, mutants exhibit decreased retinal-blood barrier breakdown compared to diabetic controls at 11 months
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• in the diabetes models, 11-month diabetic mutants have decreased numbers of injured endothelial cells (<5%) compared to diabetic wild-type controls
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homeostasis/metabolism
• blood glucose levels are significantly increased in mutants and controls with streptozotocin treatment or high galactose diet
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cardiovascular system
• at 2 weeks after laser injury, volume of choroidal neovascularization (CNV) is reducedby ~67.0% compared to wild-type mice
• mutants have markedly smaller CNV membranes 2 weeks after injury compared to wild-type
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• in diabetes models, mutants exhibit decreased retinal-blood barrier breakdown compared to diabetic controls at 11 months
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