Article
The outflow tract of the heart is recruited from a novel heart-forming field.
Developmental biology - 1 Oct 2001
Mjaatvedt C H, Nakaoka T, Moreno-Rodriguez R, Norris R A, Kern M J, Eisenberg C A, Turner D, Markwald R R
Abstract excerpt
As classically described, the precardiac mesoderm of the paired heart-forming fields migrate and fuse anteriomedially in the ventral midline to form the first segment of the straight heart tube. This segment ultimately forms the right trabeculated ventricle. Additional segments are added to the caudal end of the first in a sequential fashion from the posteriolateral heart-forming field mesoderm. In this study we...
Topics
- 3T3 Cells
- Adenoviridae
- Animals
- Aorta
- Cell Differentiation
- Cell Lineage
- Chick Embryo
- Coculture Techniques
- Endoderm
- Genes, Reporter
- Heart
- Heart Ventricles
- Lac Operon
- Luciferases
- Mesoderm
