Identification of a hybrid myocardial zone in the mammalian heart after birth

Fetal trabecular muscles in the heart undergo a poorly described morphogenetic process that results into a solidified compact myocardium after birth. Tian et al. show that cardiomyocytes in the fetal compact layer also contribute to this process, forming a hybrid myocardial zone that is composed of...

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Main Authors: Xueying Tian, Yan Li, Lingjuan He, Hui Zhang, Xiuzhen Huang, Qiaozhen Liu, Wenjuan Pu, Libo Zhang, Yi Li, Huan Zhao, Zhifu Wang, Jianhong Zhu, Yu Nie, Shengshou Hu, David Sedmera, Tao P. Zhong, Ying Yu, Li Zhang, Yan Yan, Zengyong Qiao, Qing-Dong Wang, Sean M. Wu, William T. Pu, Robert H. Anderson, Bin Zhou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00118-1