Article
Canonical Wnt signaling functions in second heart field to promote right ventricular growth.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 29 May 2007
Ai Di, Fu Xueyao, Wang Jun, Lu Mei-Fang, Chen Li, Baldini Antonio, Klein William H, Martin James F
Abstract excerpt
The second heart field (SHF), progenitor cells that are initially sequestered outside the heart, migrates into the heart and gives rise to endocardium, myocardium, and smooth muscle. Because of its distinct developmental history, the SHF is likely subjected to different signals from that of the first heart field. Previous experiments revealed that canonical Wnt signaling negatively regulated first heart field...
Topics
- Animals
- Biomarkers
- Bone Morphogenetic Protein 4
- Bone Morphogenetic Proteins
- Cell Lineage
- Embryo, Mammalian
- Gene Deletion
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
- Heart Ventricles
- Mice
