nervous system
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• unlike in Ngfr null mice, no defect in neuronal growth is detected
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• motorneuron apoptosis is sharply reduced
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• between P3 and P23, the number of sympathetic neurons in the NRAGE null animals drops but remains still significantly higher than in wild-type littermates
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• the effect of brain-derived neurotrophic factor is significantly reduced, exposure to the ligand causes only a twofold increase in superior cervical ganglia cell death in primary cell culture
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integument
• profound delay in catagen-dependent dermal thinning, a reduction in the hair follicle bulb volume and hair follicle shortening during the first hair follicle cycle and after depilation
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cellular
• motorneuron apoptosis is sharply reduced
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