Patterns of Muscular Strain in the Embryonic Heart Wall

Abstract

This originalreport describes the wall architecture of the embryonic ventricle and relates myocyte proliferation and differentiation to development of cardiac conduction system.

Keywords

• chick embryo
• heart development
• myocardial strain
• cardiac conduction system
• fibroblast-growth-factor
• left-ventricle
• chick-embryo
• myocyte proliferation
• mechanical stretch
• electrical activation
• epigenetic factor
• gene-expression
• mouse heart