cardiovascular system
• retinas with multiple artery-vein crossovers often display bifurcated veins
• retinal vein diameters, but not artery diameters, are slightly increased
• however, mice show no morphological defects in the developing vasculature at E9.5 and no angiogenic defects are seen in P7 retinas
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• 62.5% of mice exhibit artery-vein alignment defects in P7 retinas, with retinas displaying atypical artery-vein crossovers instead of running parallel to each other, and a few retinas having multiple artery-vein crossovers
• retinal artery-vein crossovers persist into adulthood with 58% of retinas showing crossovers in 4- to 9-month old mice
• artery-vein misalignments happen in all areas of the retina, including both proximal and distal to the optic nerve
• however, blood vessels associated with artery-vein crossovers show no occlusion
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vision/eye
• retinas with multiple artery-vein crossovers often display bifurcated veins
• retinal vein diameters, but not artery diameters, are slightly increased
• however, mice show no morphological defects in the developing vasculature at E9.5 and no angiogenic defects are seen in P7 retinas
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• 62.5% of mice exhibit artery-vein alignment defects in P7 retinas, with retinas displaying atypical artery-vein crossovers instead of running parallel to each other, and a few retinas having multiple artery-vein crossovers
• retinal artery-vein crossovers persist into adulthood with 58% of retinas showing crossovers in 4- to 9-month old mice
• artery-vein misalignments happen in all areas of the retina, including both proximal and distal to the optic nerve
• however, blood vessels associated with artery-vein crossovers show no occlusion
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