Analysis Tools
growth/size/body
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• in some mice
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• in some mice, with misorientation of the heart, right-sided stomach or spleen, asplenia, left-sided liver, and abnormal hepatic lobulation
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• in some mice
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liver/biliary system
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• left-sided in some mice
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• abnormal lobulation
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cardiovascular system
dextrocardia
(
J:253966
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• in some mice
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digestive/alimentary system
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• in some mice
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hematopoietic system
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• right-sided in some mice
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• in some mice
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immune system
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• right-sided in some mice
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• in some mice
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reproductive system
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• females are fertile with no differences in litter rate or size relative to wild-type controls
(J:266551)
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• males show no differences in testis weight, cauda epididymal sperm count, sperm morphology (flagellum length and gross axonemal morphology) or in male mating behavior relative to wild-type controls
(J:266551)
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• males sire an average litter size of 1.1 +/- 3.6 pups/litter versus 6.8 +/- 1.6 pups/litter in wild-type controls
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• when mated with wild-type females, males produce litters in only 20% of matings, with a significantly lower average litter size than wild-type controls
• however, frequency of copulatory plugs is normal
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• in vitro, the capacity of cauda epididymal sperm to fertilize wild-type oocytes is reduced by ~85%
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• after addition of 1 mM Ca2+, less than 15% of Triton X-100 extracted (demembranated) sperm flagella show a Ca2+-dependent coiled structure, whereas >90% of demembranated flagella from wild-type sperm adopt a highly coiled anti-hook form
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• after natural mating, significantly fewer sperm are able to enter the oviduct and progress to the site of fertilization relative to wild-type male controls
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• when extruded from epididymides into culture medium, sperm fail to rapidly disperse and do not produce a uniform suspension, unlike wild-type sperm
• when sperm heads are attached to a glass surface, sperm emerging from the cauda epididymis show a nonprogressive motility and a waveform in which the primary bend has a larger amplitude than in wild-type sperm and is highly asymmetric, consisting only of repetitive pro-hook bends that initiate at the head-flagellum junction
• this asymmetric flagellar bending pattern does not propagate to the distal flagellum tip and does not change upon prolonged incubation in a capacitating medium
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• after release from the cauda epididymis into culture medium, sperm swim in a nonprogressive tumbling or circular pattern, unlike wild-type sperm which swim along approximately linear paths
• kinematic analysis showed that LIN (an assessment of linearity of cell motion) is significantly lower than in wild-type sperm
• however, curvilinear velocity (VCL) and lateral head displacement (AHL) are normal
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cellular
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• after natural mating, significantly fewer sperm are able to enter the oviduct and progress to the site of fertilization relative to wild-type male controls
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• when extruded from epididymides into culture medium, sperm fail to rapidly disperse and do not produce a uniform suspension, unlike wild-type sperm
• when sperm heads are attached to a glass surface, sperm emerging from the cauda epididymis show a nonprogressive motility and a waveform in which the primary bend has a larger amplitude than in wild-type sperm and is highly asymmetric, consisting only of repetitive pro-hook bends that initiate at the head-flagellum junction
• this asymmetric flagellar bending pattern does not propagate to the distal flagellum tip and does not change upon prolonged incubation in a capacitating medium
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• after release from the cauda epididymis into culture medium, sperm swim in a nonprogressive tumbling or circular pattern, unlike wild-type sperm which swim along approximately linear paths
• kinematic analysis showed that LIN (an assessment of linearity of cell motion) is significantly lower than in wild-type sperm
• however, curvilinear velocity (VCL) and lateral head displacement (AHL) are normal
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