Search Criteria: Research Area is "Developmental Biology Research: Craniofacial and Palate Defects (cleft palate and cleft lip)"
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Strain Name Strain Description |
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| 005709 | B6.129-Skitm1Cco/J | Repository-Cryopreserved |
| This mutant was created on a mixed (129 x C57BL/6J) background. Greater than 80% of mice on this mixed background had severe neural tube closure defects (such as exencephaly) while less than 16% exhibited facial clefting. The penetrance of these phenotypes has segregated with further backcross to C57BL/6J. The congenic mutant described here was backcrossed 12-14 times to wildtype C57BL/6J. Mice homozygous for the targeted mutation die before or shortly after birth due to developmental defects. Null mice are distinguishable from wildtype and heterozygous littermates at embryonic day 8.5 (E8.5) with delayed, but complete, cranial neural tube closure (incomplete at the normal E9.5). Ninety percent of null mice alive at E18.5 exhibit facial clefting. Other highly penetrant phenotypes include flattened snout, depressed nasal bridge, excessive orbital separation, elongated subventricular zones, vestigial polydactyly, and malformations of the olfactory bulb, iris, and ventral septum. Heterozy
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| 001434 | C3HeB/FeJ x STX/Le-Mc1rE-so Gli3Xt-J Tw/J | Repository-Cryopreserved |
| Mice heterozygous for the twirler mutation (Tw) display head-shaking and circling behavior but are not deaf. There are morphological abnormalities of the inner ear which consist of irregularities in the outline of the semicircular canals, sometimes amounting to branching, and reduction or absence of otoliths. Moderate astrocytosis in the vestibular nuclei and cerebellar white matter has been reported. Homozygotes have cleft lip and palate or cleft palate only. They die within 24 hours after birth. Viability and fertility are normal except that adults tend to become obese and may then become sterile. Penetrance is incomplete. This strain is also carrying the sombre (Mc1rE-so) and extra toes-Jackson (Gli3St-J) mutations. Extra toes-J heterozygotes have varying numbers of extra digits on preaxial side of feet. Homozygotes die in utero with multiple abnormalities. Excessively large pharyngeal arches and an open neural tube are evident at E
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| 000252 | DC/LeJ | Repository-Cryopreserved |
| Mice heterozygous for the semidominant dancer mutation exhibit head tossing and circling behavior. Heterozygotes are not deaf, but have defects in the vestibular region (Wenngren et al., 1989). Homozygotes die at birth with cleft lip and cleft palate (Deol et al., 1966). Strain background influences cleft lip/palate expression in heterozygotes (Trasler et al., 1982). Positional cloning of Dc revealed a 3.3 kb insertion of the Tebp gene into the first intron of Tbx10. The insertion causes ectopic expression of a Tebp-Tbx10 chimeric transcript (Bush et al., 2004). | ||
| 005057 | FVB.129-Kcnj2tm1Swz/J | Repository-Cryopreserved |
| Mice that are homozygous for the targeted mutation have a complete cleft of the secondary palate and die within 12 hours of birth. Heterozygotes are viable, fertile, normal in size and do not display any gross physical or behavioral abnormalities. No gene product (mRNA or protein) is detected by Northern blot analysis of cardiac tissue or Southern blot analysis. Inwardly rectifying potassium ion currents are absent in cerebral artery myocytes and cardiac ventribular myocytes isolated from homozygote neonates. Elevated external potassium ion concentrations do not dilate isolated neonatal cerebral arteries. Homozygotes exhibit altered electrocardiogram profiles indicative of reduced heart rate and bradycardia. This mutant mouse strain may be useful in studies of potassium ion dependent vasodilation, cardiac arrythmia such as Anderson syndrome, cleft palate and developmental bone malformation. | ||
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