mortality/aging
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• Background Sensitivity: mean age at death is ~200 days
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neoplasm
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• all animals at time of death/sacrifice have extensive tumor burden
• mice display a more rapid tumor phenotype than Krastm2Tyj heterozygotes
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• Background Sensitivity: animals are prone to thymic lymphomas (seen in ~40% of animals)
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• Background Sensitivity: animals are prone to skin papillomas (seen in ~20% of animals); tumors typically arising on ears and snout are predominantly pedunculated and show limited tendency to progress to squamous cell carcinoma
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• 100% of animals show multifocal tumors at time of death/sacrifice
• tumors are detectable at 1 week of age as small pleural nodules; multiplicity and size of tumors increases with age, and ultimately result in respiratory distress and death
• tumors range from mild hyperplasia/dysplasia to overt carcinoma; small lesions consist of hyperplastic alveolar epithelium
• in older mice, infrequent metastases to thoracic lymph nodes, the kidney and other visceral organs
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• as lesions enlarge, they form small alveolar adenomas; some show areas of glandular differentiation
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• 5-10% of tumors have features of well-differentiated human papillary adenocarcinoma
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digestive/alimentary system
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• mutants have multiple aberrant crypt foci (ACF) of the colon
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endocrine/exocrine glands
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• mutants have multiple aberrant crypt foci (ACF) of the colon
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• Background Sensitivity: animals are prone to thymic lymphomas (seen in ~40% of animals)
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integument
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• Background Sensitivity: animals are prone to skin papillomas (seen in ~20% of animals); tumors typically arising on ears and snout are predominantly pedunculated and show limited tendency to progress to squamous cell carcinoma
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respiratory system
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• 100% of animals show multifocal tumors at time of death/sacrifice
• tumors are detectable at 1 week of age as small pleural nodules; multiplicity and size of tumors increases with age, and ultimately result in respiratory distress and death
• tumors range from mild hyperplasia/dysplasia to overt carcinoma; small lesions consist of hyperplastic alveolar epithelium
• in older mice, infrequent metastases to thoracic lymph nodes, the kidney and other visceral organs
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• as lesions enlarge, they form small alveolar adenomas; some show areas of glandular differentiation
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• 5-10% of tumors have features of well-differentiated human papillary adenocarcinoma
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