digestive/alimentary system
• mice lack normal goblet cells unlike wild-type mice
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• cells containing large, dense eosinophilic granules are abnormally positioned in the colonic villi
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• mice exhibit crypt hyperplasia unlike wild-type mice
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• the Paneth cell compartment is expanded compared to in wild-type mice
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• mice exhibit mixed acute and chronic inflammatory infiltrate expanding the isolated lymphoid follicles and lamina propria unlike in wild-type mice
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• most severe in the terminal ileum
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immune system
• mice exhibit mixed acute and chronic inflammatory infiltrate expanding the isolated lymphoid follicles and lamina propria unlike in wild-type mice
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• most severe in the terminal ileum
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• mice exhibit hyperplasia of the Peyer's patches unlike in wild-type mice
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endocrine/exocrine glands
• mice exhibit crypt hyperplasia unlike wild-type mice
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• the Paneth cell compartment is expanded compared to in wild-type mice
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cellular
• mice lack normal goblet cells unlike wild-type mice
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