mortality/aging
• mean survival age is 36 days
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growth/size/body
• normal growth for the first five days after birth but weight is significantly reduced relative to controls at 6 days
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behavior/neurological
• no neurological phenotype through 7 days of age but tremors appear around day 11
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• marked weakness and declining forelimb strength
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• shorter stride relative to controls at days 13-15
• maximum stride length at 20 days of age and becoming shorter thereafter
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muscle
• spasticity with extensor hindlimb posturing appears around day 11
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nervous system
N |
• no vacuolation in dorsal root ganglia neurons
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• neuron vacuolation
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• vacuoles found in spinal motor neurons at day seven and throughout the brainstem in certain nerves
• dilated vacuoles in lumbar spinal neurons by day 22
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