mortality/aging
• homozygotes survive to 8-12 months
• appear normal, healthy, and fertile up to 6 months of age
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behavior/neurological
• suppressed open field activity in mice over 4.5 months of age
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• older mice demonstrate a reduced freezing response to the tone used in fear tests
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• difficulty walking after about 6 months of age
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growth/size/body
weight loss
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• weight loss starts to occur at some time after 6 months of age
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• after 6 months of age
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hematopoietic system
• by 33 days of age, vacuolated macrophages are found in many organs
• vacuolated macrophages become more widely distributed with age to 6 months
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• Kupffer cells are ballooned and contain very few large inclusions
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immune system
• by 33 days of age, vacuolated macrophages are found in many organs
• vacuolated macrophages become more widely distributed with age to 6 months
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• Kupffer cells are ballooned and contain very few large inclusions
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liver/biliary system
• Kupffer cells are ballooned and contain very few large inclusions
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• hepatocytes contain many large vacuoles
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renal/urinary system
• vacuolated glomerular epithelial cells seen by 33 days of age
• extent of vacuolation increases with age to at least 6 months
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• by 33 days of age, epithelial cells are vacuolated in distal but not proximal convoluted tubules, and in Henle's loop
• at 3 to 6 months of age, more prominent vacuolation is seen in tubular epithelial cells as well as interstitial cells
• however, mesangial cells are not vacuolated
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nervous system
• some vacuolated neurons
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• neurons in the thalamus and the hypothalamus with vacuoles
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• some vacuolated neurons
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• some areas of the cortex contain vacuolated neurons
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• accessory olfactory bulb with vacuolated neurons
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• olfactory bulb with vacuolated neurons
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• neurons of cerebellar nuclei containing one or more inclusions similar to those found in Purkinje cells
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• by 33 days of age, some neurons in various regions of the brain become vacuolated
• extent of vacuolation increases with age
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• rather than vacuoles cells may contain one or more large periodic acid/Schiff positive inclusions
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cardiovascular system
• Kupffer cells are ballooned and contain very few large inclusions
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integument
• after 6 months of age
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• skin ulceration around the genitalia occurs after 6 months of age
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Mouse Models of Human Disease |
DO ID | OMIM ID(s) | Ref(s) | |
mucopolysaccharidosis III | DOID:12801 |
OMIM:252940 |
J:58950 |