hematopoietic system
• hematocrit values, the percentage of red blood cells in the blood, are slightly reduced
• however, mice are recovered at the expected ratio at weaning and mice are histologically normal, with normal weight, neural tissue (cortex, medulla, hippocampus, brain stem, corpus callosum, and cerebellum), liver, lung, heart, kidney, spleen, intestine, pancreas, ovaries and testis, and bone and normal white and red blood cell counts, red blood cell size, and hemoglobin levels
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• platelet counts are reduced to about 78% of the wild-type values, however platelet values remain well within the normal physiological ranges
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