mortality/aging
• mice die between 3 and 5 weeks of age
(J:78134)
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behavior/neurological
• loss of the use of hindlimbs bilaterally is evident between 13-18 days
• standard pathological workup on 4 mutants (age 18-19 days) showed no muscle atrophy or necrosis; additional histology of hindlimb muscles showed no evidence of reinnervation/regeneration and normal neuromuscular junction morphology in all mice
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growth/size/body
• mutant mice are described as small
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