mortality/aging
• only half of mutants survive to adulthood
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growth/size/body
• at 3 weeks of age
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• at 3 weeks of age but catch up to controls (mice carrying just the recombinase allele) by 8 weeks of age
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digestive/alimentary system
• lighter and drier feces
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• decrease in the number of the somatostatin-expressing neurons in the proximal colon
• increase in the number of calbindin-expressing neurons in the proximal colon
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• decrease in the number of the somatostatin-expressing neurons in the ileum
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• decrease in the number of the somatostatin-expressing neurons in the jejunum
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• increased total gastrointestinal transit time
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nervous system
• decrease in the number of the somatostatin-expressing neurons in the ileum, jejunum, and proximal colon
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• increase in the number of calbindin-expressing neurons in the proximal colon
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