behavior/neurological
• deficit in sensing warm temperature, with mutants spending less time on a warm surface than wildtype and exhibiting a delay in the time it took to prefer the warm surface, indicating strong deficits in response to innocuous heat, but showed no difference from wildtype in cold sensation
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• observed significant withdrawal latencies in mutants at 55C in a hot plate test
• observed delayed tail flick responses at 50C or above in a tail immersion assay indicating strong deficits in response to noxious heat
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integument
• some homozygous mutants exhibited a subtle and temporary hair irregularity in the abdominal area occurring around the third postnatal week
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• camphor (a compound that leads to sensitization to heat responses), heat or repeated application of campor failed to evoke sensitizing current responses in homozygous mutant keratinocytes but not in wildtype
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