immune system
• mice have a profoundly hypocellular thymus with 50- 170-fold fewer cells than controls
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• mice display defective coding joint formation; Ig heavy chain rearrangements are decreased by ~10-fold compared to wild-type
• mice display defective signal joint formation
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• B cells development is arrested at at the pro-B cell stage
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• over 90% of thymocytes are double-negative compared to only 5-10% of wild-type
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• thymocytes from 10 week-old mice are arrested at the CD4-CD8-CD25+ stage
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• no mature T cells are detected in mutants
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• lymph nodes are hypocellular and difficult to recover
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hematopoietic system
• mice have a profoundly hypocellular thymus with 50- 170-fold fewer cells than controls
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• mice display defective coding joint formation; Ig heavy chain rearrangements are decreased by ~10-fold compared to wild-type
• mice display defective signal joint formation
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• B cells development is arrested at at the pro-B cell stage
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• over 90% of thymocytes are double-negative compared to only 5-10% of wild-type
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• thymocytes from 10 week-old mice are arrested at the CD4-CD8-CD25+ stage
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• no mature T cells are detected in mutants
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vision/eye
• embryonic mice show increased (~5-fold) retinal apoptosis compared to wild-type
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• number of neuronal retinal nuclei is decreased compare to wild-type when quantified between 2 and 8 months of age
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cellular
• embryonic mice show increased (~5-fold) retinal apoptosis compared to wild-type
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endocrine/exocrine glands
• mice have a profoundly hypocellular thymus with 50- 170-fold fewer cells than controls
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