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Organogenesis of the vertebrate heart
14 May 2012
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Organogenesis of the vertebrate heart involves a complex sequence of events initiating with specification and differentiation of myocardial and endocardial cells in anterior lateral mesoderm shortly after gastrulation, followed by formation and rightward looping of the early heart tube. During looping, the heart tube elongates by addition of second heart field progenitor cells from adjacent pharyngeal mesoderm at...
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