Probing early heart development to instruct stem cell differentiation strategies

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 245, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 1130-1144

  Calderon, Damelys ^a   Bardot, Evan ^a   Dubois, Nicole ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

cardiac maturation; cardiac mesoderm; cardiac progenitor; cell fate specification; conduction system; disease modelling; epicardium; gastrulation; pluripotent stem cells

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NKX2.5;

CARDIAC MUSCLE; CARDIAC STEM CELL; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; ENDOCARDIUM; EPICARDIUM; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMAN; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGENERATION; REVIEW; SMOOTH MUSCLE CELL; STEM CELL; ANIMAL; CARDIAC MUSCLE CELL; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HUMANS; MYOCARDIUM; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS;

EID: 84994885004     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.24441     Document Type: Review

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