cardiovascular system
N |
• cardiac muscle shows no morphological abnormalities; no fibrosis is detected
• cardiac function is normal in mutants, and response to hypertrophic stimuli is similar to wild-type
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muscle
N |
• skeletal muscle shows no morphological abnormalities; no centralized nuclei, increased fiber size variability, abnormal fiber shape or altered fiber density are observed
• no fibrosis is detected
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• 10-week old mice display 25% lower whole muscle stress production compared to wild-type but show same susceptibility to injury induced by cyclic eccentric contractions in 5th toe muscle of EDL muscle
• passive tensile stress in whole fifth toe muscles from EDL subjected to 10% stretch is normal; exercise capacity in treadmill tests to exhaustion is similar to wild-type
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