cellular
• no mature megakaryocytes are detected in bone marrow
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hematopoietic system
• lethally irradiated animals transplanted with mutant bone marrow and treated with doxycycline show erythroid progenitor arrest and megakaryocyte differentiation defects in a wild-type bone marrow environment, but do not exhibit anemia or cytopenia; defects are blood cell-autonomous
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• no mature megakaryocytes are detected in bone marrow
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• after induction, no erythroid precursors at or beyond the proerythroblast (monopotent progenitors) stage are detected in the bone marrow
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• numbers of bipotent megakaryocyte and erythrocyte progenitor cells (pre-MegEs) are increased in bone marrow
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• moribund animals have hemoglobin levels of 1-2 g/dl
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• moribund animals have severe thrombocytopenia; some animals have no detectable platelets
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• in some animals
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mortality/aging
• pI:pC activation of cre-mediated excision in animals 4-8 weeks of age is lethal in less than 3 weeks
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