mortality/aging
• mutant embryos implant in the uterine wall, but fail to develop past E5.5
• as a result, mutant embryos are almost completely resorbed by E7.5
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embryo
• despite their developmental arrest past E5.5, cells of the embryonic ectoderm actively enter S phase and undergo DNA replication as late as E6.5
• at E6.5, p53 and apoptosis are increased in the mutant embryonic ectoderm
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• at E7.5, mutant embryos are much smaller than wild-type, and show no change in morphology from E5.5
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growth/size/body
• at E7.5, mutant embryos are much smaller than wild-type, and show no change in morphology from E5.5
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cellular
• at E5.5, mutant embryos exhibit a global increase in cyclin E1 expression
• abnormal accumulation of cyclin E1 is noted in every embryonic tissue layer and is primarily nuclear
• at E5.5, in situ analysis shows no detectable increase in Ccne1 mRNA levels, suggesting a post-transcriptional defect
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