mortality/aging
• homozygotes develop normally and are phenotypically indistinguishable from wild-type mice; however, 87.5% of them die by 30 months of age
• no significant reduction in survival is observed up to 15 months of age
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homeostasis/metabolism
• at day 5 after full thickness cutaneous wounding, homozygotes display an abnormal healing process with abnormal reepithelization and edematous granulation tissue relative to wild-type mice
• at day 7 after wounding, homozygotes display a significantly higher fraction of ulcerated wounds than wild-type and Fn1tm1Feb control mice (63% and 22%, respectively), along with a delay in reepithelization, an influx of polymorphonuclear leukocytes and macrophages, and a higher number of BrdU-positive cells in the edematous-like and ulcerative regions
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integument
skin lesions
(
J:84274
)
• upon postmortem examination, 20%-25% of homozygotes displayed various skin hyperproliferative and spontaneous ulcerative lesions on mid-dorsal skin; in contrast, <5% of wild-type mice and Fn1tm1Feb homozygotes had any kind of skin lesions
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• on mid-dorsal skin
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