Molecular embryology for an understanding of congenital heart diseases

Hiroyuki Yamagishi, Jun Maeda, Keiko Uchida, Takatoshi Tsuchihashi, Maki Nakazawa, Megumi Aramaki, Kazuki Kodo, Chihiro Yamagishi

研究成果: Review article査読

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Congenital heart diseases (CHD) result from abnormal morphogenesis of the embryonic cardiovascular system and usually involve defects in specific structural components of the developing heart and vessels. Therefore, an understanding of "Molecular Embryology", with specific focus on the individual modular steps involved in cardiovascular morphogenesis, is particularly relevant to those wishing to have a better insight into the origin of CHD. Recent advances in molecular embryology suggest that the cardiovascular system arises from multiple distinct embryonic origins, and a population of myocardial precursor cells in the pharyngeal mesoderm anterior to the early heart tube, denoted the "second heart field", has been identified. Discovery of the second heart field has important implications for the interpretation of cardiac outflow tract development and provides new insights into the morphogenesis of CHD.

本文言語English
ページ(範囲)88-94
ページ数7
ジャーナルAnatomical Science International
84
3
DOI
出版ステータスPublished - 2009

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • 解剖学

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