homeostasis/metabolism
• dioxin-treated mice show reduced fasting serum glucose levels from day 1 to 3
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• dioxin-treated mice show increased serum alanine aminotransferase activity
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• mice exhibit increased sensitivity to dioxin-induced lethality, with mice becoming moribund between 3 and 5 days
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• mice exhibit increased sensitivity to dioxin-induced toxicity, showing decreased body weight, reduced fasting serum glucose levels, induction of thymic involution, hepatomegaly, liver degeneration, and increased hepatosteatosis
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mortality/aging
• mice exhibit increased sensitivity to dioxin-induced lethality, with mice becoming moribund between 3 and 5 days
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endocrine/exocrine glands
• dioxin-treatment induces thymic involution
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growth/size/body
• dioxin-treated mice show reduced body weight on day 3 due to decreased food intake on days 1 and 2
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• dioxin-treated mice show hepatomegaly
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hematopoietic system
• dioxin-treatment induces thymic involution
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immune system
• dioxin-treatment induces thymic involution
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liver/biliary system
• dioxin-treated mice show hepatomegaly
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• mice exhibit increased dioxin-induced hepatosteatosis, showing increases in intrahepatic triglycerides, cholesterol and free fatty acids levels
• expression analysis suggest that increased sensitivity to dioxin-induced hepatosteatosis is due to increased uptake of circulating lipids rather than increased hepatic lipogenesis
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• dioxin-treated mice show increased degenerative changes in the liver, including focal inflammatory infiltration and increased cytoplasmic clearing of periportal hepatocytes on day 1 and microvesicular steatosis with regions of focal vacuolation on day 3
• dioxin-treated mice exhibit increased hepatic expression of Il1-beta and Cxcl2
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