mortality/aging
• no homozygotes are born but Mendelian numbers are present through E19.5
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growth/size/body
• at E14.5 onward, null mice are smaller than littermates
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hematopoietic system
• at E15.5, mutant livers contain predominantly large immature erythroblasts with few enucleated erythrocytes
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• at E14.5-16.5, null fetuses contain mostly nucleated erythrocytes; at E14.5, peripheral blood in wild-type fetuses contains ~25% nucleated erythrocytes and only 5% at E16.5 compared to 65-70% in null fetuses
• in cluture with macrophages, null fibroblasts show an enucleation defect; in wild-type cultures, ~40% of cells are enucleated compared to ~10% in mutant cultures
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• mutant livers contain only 25-30% of control macrophage numbers
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immune system
• mutant livers contain only 25-30% of control macrophage numbers
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integument