Attitudinally Correct Cardiac Anatomy
Fig. 2.1 Illustration showing the anatomic position. Regardless of the position of the body or organ upon examination, the anatomy of an organ or the whole should be described as…
The Pericardium
Fig. 9.1 Posterior view of the pericardial sac, with the anterior surface and heart cut away. One can see that the great vessels of the heart penetrate through the pericardium,…
Cell Transplantation for Ischemic Heart Disease
3. Thomson JA, Itskovitz-Eldor J, Shapiro SS et al (1998) Embryonic stem cell lines derived from human blastocysts. Science 282:1145–1147 4. Nussbaum J, Minami E, Laflamme MA et al (2007)…
Cardiac Development
Fig. 3.1 The four major contributors to heart development illustrated in the chick model system: first heart field, second heart field, cardiac neural crest, and the proepicardial organ. (A) Day…
