cardiovascular system
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• decrease in tracheal capillary density
|
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• intersomitic, tracheal, dermal, and cardiac blood vessels are narrower
• however, the sizes of large vessels (aorta, vena cava, branchiocephalic artery, subclavian artery, and common iliac artery) are unaffected
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embryo
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• despite abnormalities seen in the vitelline vasculature of Xenopus mutants, remodeling of the vitelline vasculature is unaffected in homozygous mice
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growth/size/body
weight loss
(
J:131824
)
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• seen in a small number of mice
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vision/eye
anophthalmia
(
J:131824
)
|
• seen in a small number of mice
|