Epicardial‐like cells on the distal arterial end of the cardiac outflow tract do not derive from the proepicardium but are derivatives of the cephalic pericardium

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A series of recent studies strongly suggests that the myocardium of the cardiac distal outflow tract (d-OFT) does not derive from the original precardiac mesoderm but, instead, differentiates from a so-called anterior heart field. Similar findings were also reported for the endocardium of the d-OFT. However, very little information is available on the origin of the epicardium of the OFT. To address this issue, we...

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