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Cellular components and signals required for the cardiac outflow tract assembly in Drosophila.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 19 Feb 2008
Zmojdzian Monika, Da Ponte Jean Philippe, Jagla Krzysztof
Abstract excerpt
Specification of cardiac primordia and formation of the Drosophila heart tube is highly reminiscent of the early steps of vertebrate heart development. We previously reported that the final morphogenesis of the Drosophila heart involves a group of nonmesodermal cells called heart-anchoring cells and a pair of derived from the pharyngeal mesoderm cardiac outflow muscles. Like the vertebrate cardiac neural crest...
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