mortality/aging
• most mice die prior to weaning
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hematopoietic system
• fetal liver progenitor cells form fewer colonies when cultured with granulocyte-colony stimulating factor, macrophage colony stimulating factor or IL3, IL6 and stem cell factor compared to fetal liver cells from wild-type mice
• after several passages, fetal liver cells grow faster than wild-type cells in culture and resemble immature blast cells instead of immature mast cells
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