mortality/aging
• die around E12.5
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cellular
aneuploidy
(
J:150421
)
• in cultured MEFs as early as passage 3 the percentage of cells with abnormal karyotypes in increased compared to wild-type cells
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• in MEFs, in metaphase chromosomes are misaligned and in anaphase lagging chromosomes or chromosome bridges are seen
• anaphase begins prematurely
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• cell growth in cultured MEFs stops with increasing passage numbers as the result of massive cell death
• cell death can be rescued by immortalizing MEFs with the expression of the SV40 large T antigen
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• very high levels of apoptotic cell death are seen in embryos
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• MEFs grow more slowly than controls
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embryo
• very high levels of apoptotic cell death are seen in embryos
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growth/size/body