mortality/aging
• partial; some pups survive postnatally
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nervous system
N |
• brains are morphologically indistinguishable from controls
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• expansion of the expression domain of the orphan receptor ROR alpha indicates that the the ventral posterior nucleus (VP) is increased in size
• in E18.5 brains, molecular marker analysis indicates that the entire postmitotic thalamus exhibits rostroventral identity
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• based on thalamic labeling by cholera toxin B subunit injection, the volume of the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus (dLG) is increased more than 3-fold compared to control neonatal animals; expansion of the expression domain of the orphan receptor ROR alpha indicates that the dLG is increased in size
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