nervous system
• induction of cre activity in adult mice results in significant reduction in size of sympathetic ganglia
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• sympathetic ganglion size reduction leads to a small residual superior cervical ganglion (SCG) and stellate ganglon
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• absence of sympathetic innervation of eyelid musculature
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endocrine/exocrine glands
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• area of chromaffin cells in adrenal medulla of tamoxifen-treated adult mice is not different from controls
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vision/eye
• functional deficit in mutants occurs as ptosis due to SCG abnormalities (absence of sympathetic innervation of eyelid musculature)
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