normal phenotype
• mice are viable and live a normal life-span, exhibit normal body weight and no gross developmental or behavioral defects, no obvious abnormalities in heart, lung, spleen, kidney, thymus. liver, intestine, gonad, eye or cerebrum, or in hippocampal or dopaminergic neurons or in dopamine levels or its metabolites
• mice injected with alpha-synuclein preformed fibril into the dorsal striatum show rescue of the alpha-synuclein preformed fibril-induced loss of dopamine neurons, striatal deficits of dopamine and its metabolites DOPAC and HVA, and reduction in dopamine fiber density, prevention of the behavioral abnormalities in the Pole test, the loss of grip strength
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