The deployment of cell lineages that form the mammalian heart

Nature Reviews Cardiology

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2018, Pages 705-724

  Meilhac, Sigolène M ^a,b   Buckingham, Margaret E ^c  

^a IMAGINE INSTITUTE   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABNORMALITIES; ANIMAL; CARDIAC MUSCLE CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FETUS HEART; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; HUMAN; METABOLISM; ORGANOGENESIS; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PROCEDURES; REGENERATION; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE CELL;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL PROLIFERATION; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; FETAL HEART; FIBROBLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; ORGANOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; REGENERATION; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 85054408494     PISSN: 17595002     EISSN: 17595010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41569-018-0086-9     Document Type: Review

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