Journal
CIRCULATION RESEARCH
Volume 87, Issue 11, Pages 969-971Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1161/01.RES.87.11.969
Keywords
epicardium; coronary vasculature; myocardial differentiation; ablation; chimerization
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In the present study, we investigated the modulatory role of the epicardium in myocardial and coronary development. Epicardial cell tracing experiments have shown that epicardium-derived cells are the source of interstitial myocardial fibroblasts, cushion mesenchyme, and smooth muscle cells. Epicardial outgrowth inhibition studies show abnormalities of the compact myocardial layer, myocardialization of cushion tissue, looping, septation, and coronary vascular formation. Lack of epicardial spreading is partly compensated by mesothelial outgrowth over the conotruncal region, Heterospecific epicardial transplant is able to partially rescue the myocardial development, as well as septation and coronary formation.
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