mortality/aging
• increased neonatal mortality
• no abnormal mortality after 8 weeks
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respiratory system
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• little disruption or destruction of lung architecture
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• no neovascularization in areas of organizing pneumonia
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• inflammatory cells are rare
• alveolar macrophage are always abundant in affected alveoli and surrounding air spaces
• most granulocytes are eosinophils
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• fibrinogenic tissue sometimes extends between alveoli through the pores of Kohn
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• patchy intra-alveolar organizing pneumonia in some 6-7 week old mice
• mostly in right lung, lesions are rare in the left lung
• lesions composed of clearly defined and separated foci
• proliferative intra-alveolar fibrosis (Masson bodies)
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immune system
• in some 6-7 week old mice
• almost complete depletion of thymocytes
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• diffuse moderate eosinophilic granulocytosis
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• inflammatory cells are rare
• alveolar macrophage are always abundant in affected alveoli and surrounding air spaces
• most granulocytes are eosinophils
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hematopoietic system
• in some 6-7 week old mice
• almost complete depletion of thymocytes
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• diffuse moderate eosinophilic granulocytosis
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• diffuse moderate eosinophilic granulocytosis
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cardiovascular system
• no neovascularization in areas of organizing pneumonia
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endocrine/exocrine glands
• in some 6-7 week old mice
• almost complete depletion of thymocytes
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