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Hydrostatic mechanical stress regulates growth and maturation of the atrioventricular valve.
Development (Cambridge, England) - 1 Jul 2021
Bassen David, Wang Mingkun, Pham Duc, Sun Shuofei, Rao Rashmi, Singh Rishabh, Butcher Jonathan
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During valvulogenesis, cytoskeletal, secretory and transcriptional events drive endocardial cushion growth and remodeling into thin fibrous leaflets. Genetic disorders play an important role in understanding valve malformations but only account for a minority of clinical cases. Mechanical forces are ever present, but how they coordinate molecular and cellular decisions remains unclear. In this study, we used...
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