Table I.
Symptoms and pathology in individual mice
Symptoms | Pathology | |||||||
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Group (number of mice)* | Wasting | Leg paralysis | Other adverse symptoms ** | Number of mice at necropsy † | Average day of necropsy | Secondary tumors | Enlarged spleen ‡ | Granta cells in blood at necropsy |
Control group (10 mice) | No mice | No mice | No mice | 8 | 21.9 | #33 | All mice | All mice |
Group 1 (11 mice) | #31,43,45 | #29,45 | #21,31,43 | 9 | 42.7 | #29,44,45 | #12,17,21,44,52 | #12,17,21,44 |
Group 2 (9 mice) | #7,8,13,16,28 | #7,16,28 | #8 | 7 | 56 | #8,25 | #2,25,37,47 | #2,37,47 |
Group 3 (7 mice) | #11,20,24,34,39,49 | #39,49 | #11,24,34,49 | 4 | 77.8 | #11,24,34 | No mice | #11,24,34 |
Experimental groups included initially about 12 mice but some sudden treatment-related fatalities occurred, especially after IV injection of virus or control Opti-MEM. The number of fatalities was highest in group 3, in which each animal received multiple rounds of treatment.
Other adverse symptoms included ascites, labored breathing, a hunched posture and body tremors.
Some mice were not available for necropsy.
Enlarged spleen is defined as > 175% of the weight of age-matched normal SCID mice.