Transient cardiomyocyte fusion regulates cardiac development in zebrafish

Cell fusion regulates several physiological events, for example, fusion of myoblasts in skeletal muscle formation, but it is unclear if this process occurs in the heart. Here, the authors use transgenic reporters in zebrafish to show transient cardiomyocyte fusion, modulating cardiac development and...

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Main Authors: Suphansa Sawamiphak, Zacharias Kontarakis, Alessandro Filosa, Sven Reischauer, Didier Y. R. Stainier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01555-8