mortality/aging
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• homozygotes from mothers that are treated with a blocking anti-C5 antibody throughout pregnancy survive to adulthood
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• normal frequency of homozygotes until around E9.5
• all are dead by E16.5
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embryo
• C3 (complement) deposited on the surface
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• C3 (complement) deposited on the surface
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• reduced deciduas at E9.5
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immune system
• extensive invasion of polymorphonuclear inflammatory granulocytes around the ectoplacental cone and the trophoectoderm
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reproductive system
• reduced deciduas at E9.5
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nervous system
• 20 week-old mutants (from mothers treated with an anti-C5 antibody throughout pregnancy) show a reduction in complement factor H and a decrease in tau phosphorylation in the hippocampus, both markers of Alzheimer's disease
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