mortality/aging
• the median life span is about 6 months
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adipose tissue
• at 12 months of age the subcutaneous fat cell layer is significantly thinner compared to wild-type mice
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• total body fat declines prematurely
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cellular
• sperm counts are about 4 time lower than in wild-type mice
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• after nocodazole treatment the time for 50% of cells to exit prometaphase arrest is reduced to 1.1 hours compared to 7.2 hours for wild-type MEFs
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• 17% of anaphases have multiple lagging chromosomes compared to 0% in wild-type MEFs
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• senescence associated markers are increased in kidneys from 5 month old mutants compared to wild-type mice
(J:91128)
• the number of senescent cells is increased compared to wild-type MEFs or MEFs double heterozygous for Rae1tm1Jvd and Bub3tm1Jvd
(J:105717)
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• mild aneuploidy develops by 2 months and increases in degree and severity as the mice age
• despite the increase in aneuploidy only 7 out of 116 homozygotes developed tumo
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growth/size/body
• homozygotes are normal in size at birth but grow more slowly postnatally
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muscle
• at 12 months muscular atrophy is seen
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reproductive system
• sperm counts are about 4 time lower than in wild-type mice
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• females are infertile at least in part because of meiotic chromosome segregation defects
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• males do not sire litters probably as a result of decreased sperm counts and abnormal meiotic chromosome segregation
• sperm from males can fertilize eggs in vitro but this results in 13 times fewer 2-cell stage embryos compared to wild-type
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skeleton
lordokyphosis
(
J:91128
)
• around 2 - 3 months mutants develop lordokyphosis that increases in severity with age
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vision/eye
• from 2 months of age, mutants develop progressive bilateral cataracts with features similar to age-related human cataracts
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homeostasis/metabolism
• mutants have a decreased ability to heal wounds
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integument
• at 12 months of age the subcutaneous fat cell layer is significantly thinner compared to wild-type mice
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• at 12 months of age the dermis is significantly thinner compared to wild-type mice
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