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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Xenopus laevis
SUBMITTER: Panna Tandon
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-45786 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Development (Cambridge, England) 20130501 11
The epicardium is a mesothelial cell layer essential for vertebrate heart development and pertinent for cardiac repair post-injury in the adult. The epicardium initially forms from a dynamic precursor structure, the proepicardial organ, from which cells migrate onto the heart surface. During the initial stage of epicardial development crucial epicardial-derived cell lineages are thought to be determined. Here, we define an essential requirement for transcription factor Tcf21 during early stages ...[more]