nervous system
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• mice exhibit normal lateral ventricles, corpus callosum thickness, and cortical neuron numbers
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• spines have globular-shaped head and think necks that connects the head to the shaft of the dendrite
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• abnormal apical dendrites with thinner, irregularly distorted, and wavy morphology
• dendritic spines are smaller and have irregularly distorted heads
• impaired dendritic spine formation
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• in 1-month-old and 6-month-old mice
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• lost or invisible thick apical dendrites in layer V pyramidal neurons of the neocortices
• apical and basal dendrites exhibit abnormal bending compared with wild-type neurons
• decreased number of dendritic spines
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