immune system
• expression of pro-inflammatory cytokines is upregulated in differentiated myoblasts
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muscle
• skeletal muscle appears normal, however the slow twitch-muscle gene expression program is modified, with Il6, Glut4, and Rcan1 downregulated in soleus muscle, indicating that slow muscle fibers are transcripitionally adapted to fiber-type switching toward a faster phenotype
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cardiovascular system
N |
• mice have normal cardiac morphology and physiology
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mortality/aging
N |
• mice are born at expected Mendelian ratios, are fertile, and survive until adulthood
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