behavior/neurological
• evident by 3.5 to 4 months of age, tremor initially appears intermittent and more pronounced when walking then becomes constant as overall symptoms worsen with age
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• evident by 3.5 to 4 months of age
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mortality/aging
• all homozygotes die by 6 months of age
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nervous system
• by 17 weeks of age there are eosinophilic and luxol fast blue positive cytoplasmic inclusions in motor neurons in spinal cord and other large neurons in the brain
• by 19 weeks of age there are also myelin figures in the white matter and inclusions in muscle and bone marrow macrophages
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muscle
• histology at 6 weeks of age reveals a few inflammed and degenerating muscle fibers, and at 19 weeks of age there are inclusions in muscle, small muscle fibers and rowing of nuclei in muscle fibers
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Mouse Models of Human Disease |
DO ID | OMIM ID(s) | Ref(s) | |
neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis 2 | DOID:0110726 |
OMIM:204500 |
J:201119 |