Mode and determination of the initial contraction stage in the mouse embryo heart

Anatomy and Embryology

Volumn 211, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 95-100

  Nishii, Kiyomasa ^a,b   Shibata, Yosaburo ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Development; Endocardial cushion; First contractions; Heart; Mouse

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR CANAL; BLOOD REGURGITATION; BRADYCARDIA; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOCARDIUM; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SOMITE;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; ENDOCARDIUM; FEMALE; HEART; MICE; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; ORGANOGENESIS; PREGNANCY;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 33644546391     PISSN: 03402061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-005-0065-x     Document Type: Article

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