Evolutionary Aspects of Cardiac Development
Fig. 10.1 The evolutionarily conserved building plan of the heart. (a) All vertebrate embryos form a heart tube with slow propagating peristaltic contractions reflected in a sinusoid ECG. (b) Atrial…
Epicardium and Coronary Arteries
Fig. 6.1 Graphic summary of coronary blood vessel development in relation to epicardial-derived cell lineages. The upper left cartoon reproduces the characteristic concentric arrangement of coronary blood vessel cell types…
Cardiac Development and Animal Models of Congenital Heart Defects
Fig. 1.1 Mouse heart development. Cartoon showing the major events in mouse heart development. (a–d) From the cardiac crescent (E7.5, a), through linear (E8, b) and looping (E8.5, c) stages…
