mortality/aging
• die by 5 months of age from skin infections
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neoplasm
• 75% of epithelial proliferations differentiate into cells similar to sebaceous glands and epidermal cysts
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• epithelial invaginations form tumors with various characteristics of the hair follicle lineage with 25% of epithelial proliferations resembling trichoepitheliomas
• tumors form during the anagen phase of the hair cycle
• they are neither mature, well-differentiated hair follicles nor basal cell carcinomas
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integument
• mice begin to lose their hair at around postnatal day 26, at the onset of anagen
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• skin gradually develops small ulcers after P26
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• epithelial invaginations form tumors with various characteristics of the hair follicle lineage with 25% of epithelial proliferations resembling trichoepitheliomas
• tumors form during the anagen phase of the hair cycle
• they are neither mature, well-differentiated hair follicles nor basal cell carcinomas
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