Cardiac fiber orientation and the left-right asymmetry determining mechanism

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1015, Issue , 2004, Pages 190-201

  Delhaas, Tammo ^a,b   Decaluwe, Wim ^b   Rubbens, Mirjam ^c   Kerckhoffs, Roy ^c   Arts, Theo ^a,c  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cardiac development; Cardiac looping; Congenital; Heart defects; Left right asymmetry; Myocardium; Myofiber; Situs inversustotalis; Situs solitus

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN NODAL;

CELL STRUCTURE; CILIATED EPITHELIUM; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENDOCYTOSIS; FLAGELLUM; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART VENTRICLE; HUMAN; MESODERM; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIMITIVE STREAK; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMITE;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 3042840733     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1302.016     Document Type: Conference Paper

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