mortality/aging
• increase in perinatal mortality from 50% of mice with anencephaly due to bleed out from the skull or infanticide by the mother
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nervous system
anencephaly
(
J:121114
)
• anencephaly is observed in E10.5 embryos and in 50% of mice at E13.5
• however, the remaining 50% of mice have no neural tube defects and grow normally
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