nervous system
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• homozygous mutant mice were behaviorally normal and displayed no major differences in any structure of the brain, including the brainstem and cerebellum, relative to wild-type
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• retrograde labeling experiments revealed a commissural defect, whereby tectal axons failed to project from the superior colliculus of the midbrain to the contralateral inferior colliculus
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• notably, homozygous mutant mice exhibited an aberrant ipsilateral axonal tract that projected to the ventral region of the cervical spinal cord
• retrograde labeling revealed that these abnormal projections originated from a small subpopulation of superior colliculus neurons
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cellular
• retrograde labeling experiments revealed a commissural defect, whereby tectal axons failed to project from the superior colliculus of the midbrain to the contralateral inferior colliculus
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