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Recruitment of new cells into the postnatal heart: potential modification of phenotype by periostin.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences - 1 Oct 2006
Visconti Richard P, Markwald Roger R
Abstract excerpt
Establishment of the circulatory system occurs very early in development to support the rapid growth of the embryo. Therefore, the heart is the first functional organ to be formed during both avian and mammalian development. Historically, cardiac development has been considered to occur only during embryogenesis from cell sources located within the primordial structures that generate the myocardium and associated...
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