mortality/aging
• some mice die during the fourth postnatal week
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nervous system
• hypoplastic thalamocortical projections
• few, if any, corticofugal and thalamocortical axons cross the pallial-subpallial boundary
• however, thalamocortical projections extension through the diencephalic-telencephalic boundary is normal
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• at P7, pallium and subpallium are almost completely disconnected
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• the main trunk is devoid of corticofugal axons
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