vision/eye
• early onset, progressive, and age-associated
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• ectopically localized presynaptic terminals and abnormal extensions of dendrites into the outer nuclear layers
• increased ectopic synapses in the peripheral retina at 2 months of age and in the central retina at 7 months of age
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• by 7 months
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• beginning at 2 months and progressing with age
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• in the peripheral retina by 2 months
• increased under hypoxic conditions
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• modest reduction of b-wave at 7 months of age
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• significant reduced a-wave and b-waves at 7 months of age
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cellular
• over-fused and elongated mitochondrial networks in mouse embryonic fibroblasts
• enlarged mitochondria in retinal pigmented epithelium and photoreceptor cells
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• in mouse embryonic fibroblasts
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• in mouse embryonic fibroblasts
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• reduced basal oxygen consumption rate and ATP production in mouse embryonic fibroblasts
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• decreased maximal respiration and spare respiration capacity
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• in mouse embryonic fibroblasts
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• in mouse embryonic fibroblasts
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homeostasis/metabolism
• under hypoxic conditions, mice exhibit increased cell death in the retina compared with wild-type mice
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pigmentation
• by 7 months
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• autofluorescent cells aggregate between photoreceptors and retinal pigment epithelium
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nervous system
• ectopically localized presynaptic terminals and abnormal extensions of dendrites into the outer nuclear layers
• increased ectopic synapses in the peripheral retina at 2 months of age and in the central retina at 7 months of age
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