homeostasis/metabolism
• 1-month old mutants exhibit reduced voluntary running wheel activity over a 7-day period, with an average distance traveled per day about 30% less than that of wild-type mice
• however, average and maximum speeds of running are similar to wild-type
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muscle
• muscles exhibit thickened Z disks and extensions of Z disks
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• skeletal muscle exhibits internal nuclei, core-like regions, cores containing rods, granulofilamentous electron-dense inclusions and ringbinden (myofibrils arranged concentrically around the bulk of longitudinally oriented myofibrils)
• mutants develop rod-like bodies in muscle similar to nemaline bodies seen in nemaline myopathy
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• altered skeletal muscle contractile performance, especially in the predominately slow twitch soleus (SOL) muscle
• the peak specific twitch force is diminished in SOL muscles compared to wild-type, however no differences are seen in extensor digitorum longus (EDL) muscles
• no differences in contraction or relaxation times of the twitch responses in EDL or SOL muscles
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• EDL and SOL muscles are weaker than wild-type muscles at 4 weeks of age
• maximal specific force is decreased in both extensor digitorum longus (EDL) and soleus (SOL) muscles, being 79% and 42% of wild-type, respectively
• SOL muscles require a greater stimulation frequency to produce a similar amount of force to wild-type
• the peak specific twitch force is diminished in SOL muscles compared to wild-type, however no differences are seen in EDL muscles
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behavior/neurological
• 1-month old mutants exhibit reduced voluntary running wheel activity over a 7-day period, with an average distance traveled per day about 30% less than that of wild-type mice
• however, average and maximum speeds of running are similar to wild-type
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Mouse Models of Human Disease |
DO ID | OMIM ID(s) | Ref(s) | |
nemaline myopathy 3 | DOID:0110927 |
OMIM:161800 |
J:182255 |