mortality/aging
• animals died within 30 minutes to 2 hours after birth
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homeostasis/metabolism
muscle
• abnormal diaphragm muscle architecture, with prominent hypercontracted regions in scattered fibers and increased fiber size variability
• hypercontractility can decrease sarcomere length to as short as 600nm, forcing the thick and thin filaments into the Z-band region and leading to increased Z-band density
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• maximal calcium uptake activity is reduced by 80% in sarcoplasmic reticulum from diaphragm and hind limb skeletal muscle
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• tetanic force is lower in diaphragm muscle of mutants than in wild-type
• the frequency-dependent maximal rate of contraction is significantly depressed
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• mutants show delayed relaxation of skeletal muscle
• time of relaxation is markedly longer in mutant diaphragm than in wild-type
• the frequency-dependent maximal rate of relaxation is significantly depressed
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• mutants show an increased susceptibility to fatigue in diaphragm muscle in response to a stimulation protocol that measures fatigue
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respiratory system
• congested and hypercellular lung
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• mutants exhibit gasping respiration within minutes after birth and die shortly thereafter of respiratory failure
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