behavior/neurological
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• mice exhibit normal home cage locomotor activity or coordination and balance performance in a rotarod test
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• significantly smaller base of support with smaller front paws contact and larger hind paws print width
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• when tested with Von Frey hair filaments
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nervous system
• in the central brain system at 4 to 5 months
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• with bilateral and symmetrical axonal swelling (spheroids) in the medulla oblongata
• age-dependent with significance beginning at 6 months
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• in the brain stem and thoracic spinal cord
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cellular
• age-dependent accumulation of autophagosomes
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homeostasis/metabolism
• age-dependent accumulation of autophagosomes
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