mortality/aging
• no evidence of prenatal mortality
• 15% male mortality within the first 13 months of life, mostly from 4 to 7 months of age
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growth/size/body
• some, but not all, homozygotes are much smaller than controls
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behavior/neurological
• considerably less "freezing" than in controls when exposed to a conditioned (auditory) stimulus
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• more time is required to find the platform in the Morris water maze test but a spatially biased search pattern is used
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• shorter latency to first hind-limb response in a hot plate test
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nervous system
• baseline hippocampal CA1 synaptic transmission is normal
• normal input-output functioning of CA1 presynaptic fiber volley
• normal paired pulse facilitation at interpulse intervals of 20-300 msec
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• increased slope of the fEPSP
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• lasting up to three hours after tetanization
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