Finding a niche for cardiac precursors.
Within an embryo, a region next to the developing heart provides a niche where cardiac precursor cells can increase in number before they contribute to the development of this organ.
Benoit G Bruneau is in the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, and Roddenberry Center for Stem Cell Biology and Medicine at Gladstone, San Francisco, United States, and the Department of Pediatrics and Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, United States bbruneau@gladstone.ucsf.edu.
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D000818:Animals; D017353:Gene Deletion; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000502:physiology*; D032383:Myocytes, Cardiac / Q000166:cytology*; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins / Q000502:physiology*; D013234:Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology*
D008565:Membrane Proteins; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins
cardiac progenitor; heart; microenvironment; niche; numb; self-renewal