A novel source of arterial valve cells linked to bicuspid aortic valve without raphe in mice

eLife

Volumn 7, Issue , 2018, Pages

  Eley, Lorriane ^a   Alqahtani, Ahlam M S ^a   Macgrogan, Donal ^b,c   Richardson, Rachel V ^a   Murphy, Lindsay ^a   Salguero Jimenez, Alejandro ^b,c   Sintes Rodriguez San Pedro, Marcos ^a   Tiurma, Shindi ^a   McCutcheon, Lauren ^a   Gilmore, Adam ^a   de La Pompa, José Luis ^b,c   Chaudhry, Bill ^a   Henderson, Deborah J ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES CARDIOVASCULARES CNIC   (Spain)

^c CIBERCV   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTIC VALVE; ARTICLE; BICUSPID AORTIC VALVE; CARDIAC STEM CELL; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ENDOCARDIAL TO MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NOTCH SIGNALING; SMOOTH MUSCLE CELL; ABNORMALITIES; ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL TRACKING; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; MAMMALIAN EMBRYO; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; STEM CELL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CRE RECOMBINASE; INSULIN GENE ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN ISL-1; INTEGRASE; JAG1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; LIM HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; NOTCH1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; NOTCH1 RECEPTOR; PROTEIN JAGGED 1; TNNT2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TROPONIN T;

ANIMALS; AORTIC VALVE; BIOMARKERS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL TRACKING; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; INTEGRASES; JAGGED-1 PROTEIN; LIM-HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; RECEPTOR, NOTCH1; STEM CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TROPONIN T;

EID: 85051957934     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.34110     Document Type: Article

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