Cells in the developing heart must find the perfect match, much like a game of microscopic speed dating. Using filopodia—tiny ...

where they fuse into a tube to make the first heart structure (far right). Precise alignment and pairing of these cells are ...

The volume of blood pumped through each ventricle per minute can be calculated as cardiac output. Cardiac output can be calculated using the following equation: Stroke volume close stroke ...

“This is a different approach to repairing damaged cardiac tissue,” said Scot Matkovich, a molecular biologist at Washington University in St. Louis who was not involved in the research. In contrast ...

Notch is required in cardiac neural crest cells for the specification of smooth ... layer is thought to be required to maintain the structure of developing arteries. A similar mechanism might ...