behavior/neurological
• in males
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• tendency towards limb clasping in mice over 12 months of age
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• although performance improves with training mice do not perform as efficiently on a rotarod as do wild-type controls
• performance on a rotarod decreases with age and the deficit is more severe in females
• females and males tend to cling to the rod and passively turn more than wild-type mice and this defect is more obvious in females
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• somewhat reduced in old mice
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• decrease in basic locomotor activity that is more obvious in males and tends to increase with age in males but not females
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growth/size/body
• in older females
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nervous system
• the main dendritic trunk appears shriveled and unordered
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