mortality/aging
• about half die within 6 weeks after birth, with many of the remaining homozygotes surviving for at least 6 months
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growth/size/body
digestive/alimentary system
• exhibit esophageal achalasia, showing a dilated esophagous that is clogged with saburra in 4 week or older mice
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• intestinal gauge is partly dilated and filled with gas at 2 months of age
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• contraction force of the lower esophageal sphincter in response to carbachol is more than 5 times stronger than in wild-type
• motility of the intestine in response to carbachol is abnormal
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• intestinal pseudo-obstruction
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nervous system
• enteric nervous system hyperplasia
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• hypergangliosis of the enteric nervous system
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• enteric nerve hyperplasia
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Mouse Models of Human Disease |
DO ID | OMIM ID(s) | Ref(s) | |
achalasia | DOID:9164 |
OMIM:200400 |
J:99827 | |
intestinal pseudo-obstruction | DOID:0080072 | J:99827 |