mortality/aging
• homozygotes survived to birth but died within the first 24 hours after birth
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endocrine/exocrine glands
• absence of axonal projections from the paraventricular and supraoptic nuclei results in more densly packed pituicytes in the posterior lobe of the pituitary
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• average number of cells in midsagittal sections of the pituitary are reduced by about 50%
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nervous system
• paraventricular nucleus and supraoptic nuclei are hypocellular
• magnocellular neurons are absent
• terminal differentiation of neurons in both nuclei fails
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• absence of axonal projections from the paraventricular and supraoptic nuclei results in more densly packed pituicytes in the posterior lobe of the pituitary
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• average number of cells in midsagittal sections of the pituitary are reduced by about 50%
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• hypocellular
• absence of axonal projections from the paraventricular nuclei
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• hypocellular
• absence of axonal projections from the supraoptic nuclei
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