Investigating developmental cardiovascular biomechanics and the origins of congenital heart defects

Innovative research on the interactions between biomechanical load and cardiovascular (CV) morphogenesis by multiple investigators over the past 3 decades, including the application of bioengineering approaches, has shown that the embryonic heart adapts both structure and function in order to mainta...

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Main Authors: William J Kowalski, Kerem ePekkan, Joseph P Tinney, Bradley B Keller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Physiology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fphys.2014.00408/full