reproductive system
• increased apoptosis of pachytene spermatocytes
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• ovary size is normal through E18.5 but diplotene oocytes are found
• adult mice have vestigial ovaries
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absent ovary
(
J:102097
)
• ovaries are absent or vestigial in the adult
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• 30% smaller than controls
• weight difference starting at 23 days and continuing through 77 days of age
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• 6 fold fewer sperm than in controls and only 2% are motile
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• E14.5 oocytes show meiotic arrest at pachytene; diplotene oocytes undetectable at E18.5
• DNA highly fragmented and dispersed in oocytes at E16.5
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• pachytene spermatocytes undetectable at 16 days of age
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• no offspring from matings to wild-type males
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• only 20% of matings to wild-type females produced offspring
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nervous system
• single stimulus long-term potentiation defective
• effect seen only with weak stimuli
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endocrine/exocrine glands
• ovary size is normal through E18.5 but diplotene oocytes are found
• adult mice have vestigial ovaries
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absent ovary
(
J:102097
)
• ovaries are absent or vestigial in the adult
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• 30% smaller than controls
• weight difference starting at 23 days and continuing through 77 days of age
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cellular
• 6 fold fewer sperm than in controls and only 2% are motile
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• E14.5 oocytes show meiotic arrest at pachytene; diplotene oocytes undetectable at E18.5
• DNA highly fragmented and dispersed in oocytes at E16.5
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• pachytene spermatocytes undetectable at 16 days of age
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• increased apoptosis of pachytene spermatocytes
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