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007587 129S-Park2tm1Rpa/J
Repository- Live
Mice carrying this mutation are viable, fertile, and display no apparent defects or abnormalities. Mutations in the human homolog of this gene are associated with autosomal juvenile parkinsonism, a heritable form of Parkinson's disease.
006582 B6.129S4-Park2tm1Shn/J
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Homozygous mice are viable and fertile, and exhibit grossly normal brain morphology. Western blot analysis using antibody specific to C-terminal sequences indicates the absence of full length gene product. RT-PCR shows that exon 2 splices to exon 4, skipping exon 3 entirely, resulting in a frame shift and a premature stop codon in exon 5. While EGFP transcripts are present, little parkin-EGFP fusion protein is detectable by Western analysis. Homozygous mice have increased extracellular dopamine concentration in the striatum. Further, medium-sized striatal spiny neurons require greater currents to induce synaptic responses, suggesting a reduction in synaptic excitability in the absence of the endogenous gene. Homozygotes also exhibit deficits in behavioral paradigms sensitive to dysfunction of the nigrostriatal pathway. The numbers of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra, however, are normal up to the age of 24 months, in contrast to the substantial loss of nigral neurons charac .....
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000567 B6.Cg-T2J +/+ Qkqk/J
Repository-Cryopreserved
Mice homozygous for the quaking spontaneous mutation (Qkqk) have marked rapid tremor which disappears when they are at rest but increases during locomotion. The tremor in homozygous mutant mice begins at about 10 days and is fully developed by 3 weeks. Mature mice may have seizures in which a motionless posture is maintained for many seconds. Females are viable and fertile, males are sterile due to defective spermatic differentiation. The entire CNS of quaking mutant mice is severely deficient in myelin and there is a less severe myelin deficiency in the PNS. In this strain the brachyury 2 Jackson mutation (T2J) is maintained in repulsion with the quaking mutation.
000506 B6C3Fe a/a-Qkqk/J
Repository-Cryopreserved
Mice homozygous for the quaking spontaneous mutation (Qk) have marked rapid tremor which disappears when they are at rest but increases during locomotion. The tremor in homozygous mutant mice begins at about 10 days and is fully developed by 3 weeks. Mature mice may have seizures in which a motionless posture is maintained for many seconds. Females are viable and fertile, males are sterile due to defective spermatic differentiation. The entire CNS of quaking mutant mice is severely deficient in myelin and there is a less severe myelin deficiency in the PNS.

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