mortality/aging
• all mice had to be sacrificed at 14 weeks because of their enlarged peripheral lymph nodes
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immune system
• mice exhibit diffuse hemorrhaging with necrosis in the lymph nodes
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• total cell numbers in inguinal and auxiliary lymph nodes is increased between 5x108 and 25x108 with the greatest numbers observed in the older mice
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• lymph nodes contain large hematomas with cystic degeneration and diffuse hemorrhage with necrosis and become a site of extramedullary hematopoiesis
• lymph nodes contain many nonlymphoid cells that are a mixture of late-stage erythroblasts, reticulocytes and mature erythrocytes
• the majority of abnormal cells in the lymph node are orthochromatophilic eryththroblasts with a small amount of R2 and R4 gate cells indicating that all stages of erythroblasts are present
• fewer than 2% of lymph node cells express T cell, B cell or granulocyte markers
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• between 4 and 10 weeks all mice exhibit enlarged lymph nodes (up to 1 cm in diameter at 8 weeks of age)
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hematopoietic system
• total cell numbers in inguinal and auxiliary lymph nodes is increased between 5x108 and 25x108 with the greatest numbers observed in the older mice
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• both single and double transgenic erythrocytes are recovered
• the lymph nodes and spleen become sites of extramedullary hematopoiesis
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• the lymph nodes and spleen become sites of extramedullary hematopoiesis
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• bone marrow contains 3.5% R2 gate cells (proerythroblasts) compared to 1% in wild-type mice and twice the number of R3 gate cells (basophilic erythroblasts)
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• in a 14 day culture, bone marrow cells produce twice as many colonies as wild-type and single transgenic cells with a bias towards producing colony-forming unit-granulocyte, erythrocyte, monocyte (CFU-GEMM) and erythroid burst colonies
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cardiovascular system
• mice exhibit diffuse hemorrhaging with necrosis in the lymph nodes
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growth/size/body
• total cell numbers in inguinal and auxiliary lymph nodes is increased between 5x108 and 25x108 with the greatest numbers observed in the older mice
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