behavior/neurological
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• mice exhibit normal forelimb stepping, rearing, grooming, locomotor activity and anxiety-related behaviors
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• in a Morris water maze, mice find the hidden platform faster than wild-type mice at day 2 and 3
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• at 13 to 17 months, mice spend more time exploring objects during familiarization and recognition phases compared with wild-type mice
• mice take less time to walks outside of the square containing the object compared with wild-type mice
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• at 20 to 29 months of age, mice on a bean traverse challenge take more steps and make more errors while traversing the beam compared with wild-type mice
• at 20 to 29 months of age, mice exhibit decreased hindlimb stepping compared with wild-type mice
• swimming speed is increased compared to in wild-type mice
• however, performance on a beam at 5 to 12 months is normal
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• unsteady at 2 years
• male, but not female, mice exhibit more variable stride lengths compared with wild-type mice
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• at 20 to 29 months of age
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• mice use less cotton in nest building compared with wild-type mice
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nervous system
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• mice exhibit normal striatal dopamine content in the brain
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• at 18 months, accumulation of intraneuronal storage material (lipofuscin) in the cerebellum, hippocampus and to a lesser extent the cortex is accelerated compared to in wild-type mice
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• in the hippocampus
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pigmentation
• at 18 months, accumulation of intraneuronal storage material (lipofuscin) in the cerebellum, hippocampus and to a lesser extent the cortex is accelerated compared to in wild-type mice
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