Can recent insights into cardiac development improve our understanding of congenitally malformed hearts?

Clinical Anatomy

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 4-20

  Horsthuis, Thomas ^a   Christoffels, Vincent M ^a   Anderson, Robert H ^b   Moorman, Antoon F M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cardiac patterning; Chamber formation; Development; Second heart field

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; EMBRYO AXIS; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GENE ACTIVITY; HEART ATRIUM; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART VENTRICLE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; STEM CELL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CELLS, CULTURED; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; HEART; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; ORGANOGENESIS;

EID: 58249143935     PISSN: 08973806     EISSN: 10982353     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ca.20723     Document Type: Review

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