mortality/aging
• fewer than expected mice are alive at 8 weeks of age
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adipose tissue
• mice have little to no white adipose tissue unlike in wild-type mice
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• the gonadal fat pad is hypotrophic and adipocytes within it are smaller than normal
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hematopoietic system
• granulocytes are apoptotic
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• in the bone marrow and peripheral blood
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immune system
N |
• despite the defects in granulocytes, other hematopoietic lineages are normal
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• granulocytes are apoptotic
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• in the bone marrow and peripheral blood
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