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The rec12 mutants also exhibited high frequencies of additional developmental defects such as abnormal spore placement, reduced spore numbers, and abnormal spore formation (Figure 3C).
Since apparent defects due to LIFR loss arise during the late gestation GC surge, while maternal progesterone levels are declining in anticipation of birth and because phenotypes that have been attributed in the literature to GC excess are lessened through RU486 and the apparent heightened GC response in Lifr -/- mice affects both sexes equally, it is likely that RU486 attenuation of associated phenotypes is primarily mediated through GR antagonism.
Thus far no data are available that correlate the late onset of hearing loss with morphological defects in the cochlea.
There are four subtypes: (i) mtDNA abnormality due to mutations in nuclear genes affecting mtDNA transcription, translation or replication; (ii) direct mtDNA damage or defects in mtDNA repair; (iii) defective oxidative phosphorylation subunit import; and (iv) defective oxidative phosphorylation subunit assembly [ 8].
The first signs of ISA were small focal peripheral transillumination defects at 6 to 8 months of age.