Foxa2 identifies a cardiac progenitor population with ventricular differentiation potential

The progenitor populations that contribute to the key cardiac lineages in a chamber-specific manner are unknown. Here, the authors identifyFoxa2+ progenitor population, which is specified at gastrulation, as contributing primarily to cardiovascular cells of both ventricles and the epicardium in mice...

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Main Authors: Evan Bardot, Damelys Calderon, Francis Santoriello, Songyan Han, Kakit Cheung, Bharati Jadhav, Ingo Burtscher, Stanley Artap, Rajan Jain, Jonathan Epstein, Heiko Lickert, Valerie Gouon-Evans, Andrew J. Sharp, Nicole C. Dubois
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-02-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14428