mortality/aging
• most symptomatic animals die at <300 days of age
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behavior/neurological
• inability to perform hanging wire test
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muscle
• first sign of disease is forelimb weakness
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• the T3 transgene has marginal effects on disease onset and survival in the G1del mutants; onset is 168 to 197 days with end-stage reached at 210-248 days
• animals show forelimb onset of disease
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cellular
• vacuolated mitochondria are sometimes seen in spinal cord of end-stage animals
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nervous system
astrocytosis
(
J:134095
)