behavior/neurological
N |
• homozygosity shows no impact on hot plate tests for thermal nocioception or von Frey tests for mechanosensation
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• when picked up by the tail, homozygotes pull the rear legs to the belly
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• homozygotes pull each rear leg up to the body as they step
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hearing/vestibular/ear
N |
• normal hearing as assessed by ABR
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vision/eye
N |
• unlike the high stepper 2J and 5J alleles, these homozygotes have normal retinas
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• progressive photreceptor cell loss
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• homozygotes have misplaced ganglion cells, evident histologically by 2 weeks of age
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• histology shows progressive retinal degeneration
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• electroretinogram recordings are abnormal
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nervous system
• the femoral nerves have normal numbers of axons in both motor and sensory branches but modest increase in the average area of the motor nerve branch
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• progressive photreceptor cell loss
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