The arterial and cardiac epicardium in development, disease and repair

Differentiation

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 41-53

  Gittenberger de Groot, Adriana C ^a   Winter, Elizabeth M ^a   Bartelings, Margot M ^a   Jose Goumans, Marie ^a   DeRuiter, Marco C ^a   Poelmann, Robert E ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cardiac development; Epicardium derived cells (EPDCs); Epithelial to mesenchymal transition; Myocardial infarction; Pericardium; Vascular development

Indexed keywords

ALPHA6BETA4 INTEGRIN; ENDOTHELIN CONVERTING ENZYME; ERYTHROPOIETIN; FIBRONECTIN; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA RECEPTOR; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR B; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR; PODOPLANIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 5; UVOMORULIN; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE 1; WT1 PROTEIN;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELL THERAPY; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CORONARY ARTERY ANOMALY; ENDOCARDIAL FIBROELASTOSIS; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EPICARDIUM; EPICARDIUM DERIVED CELL; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; FIBROBLAST; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART DISEASE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION DISTURBANCE; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE FIBER; REVIEW; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; TISSUE REPAIR; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; VENTRICULAR NONCOMPACTION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CHICK EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; FIBROBLASTS; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; MICE; MYOBLASTS, CARDIAC; MYOBLASTS, SMOOTH MUSCLE; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; PERICARDIUM;

AVES;

EID: 84863096257     PISSN: 03014681     EISSN: 14320436     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diff.2012.05.002     Document Type: Review

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