normal phenotype
• despite a severe reduction of mature ADAM17 protein in different brain regions, mice are viable, healthy and phenotypically indistinguishable from wild-type controls during routine handling, and survive up to at least 6 months of age with no evidence of spontaneous pathological phenotypes or histopathological brain defects
• following stimulation with phorbol ester (PMA), circulating CD45high leukocytes isolated from brain show normal downregulation of the substrate CD62L (L-selectin) relative to wild-type controls
• LPS-stimulated release of the ADAM17 substrate TNF from resident microglia is similar to that in wild-type controls
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