mortality/aging
• Background Sensitivity: mutants on the FVB/N background survive longer (embryos are seen through E18.5 and only newborn pups are found dead) than mutants on a 129P2/OlaHsd background (die around E15.5)
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growth/size/body
• late-gestation embryos are small
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nervous system
• marker analysis of the intestinal mesenchyme from E10.5 to E16.5 shows that neural crest cells/early enteric neurons are largely absent in the intestine
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liver/biliary system
• lack hepatic development
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homeostasis/metabolism
• decease in serum albumin concentrations
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• late-gestation embryos exhibit hydrops, with the skin ballooning by subcutaneous fluid
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integument