cardiovascular system
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• epicardial cells exhibit normal migration in vitro in a scratch wound assay
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• authors state that mice exhibit similar heart defects as observed in
Myh10ehc homozygotes
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• does not display organized clusters of smooth muscle cells or vascular structures unlike wild-type myocardium
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• the percentage of binucleated cells is increased to 23% from 1% in wild-type
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• at E14.5, the number of cardiac myocytes is reduced by about 70% relative to that in wild-type controls
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• the size of myocytes is increased at E12.5
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• at E12.5 the number of cell layers in the ventricles is reduced to 2 - 3 compared to 4 - 5 in wild-type hearts
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• proliferation of cardiac myocytes is decreased at E14.5
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cellular
• proliferation of cardiac myocytes is decreased at E14.5
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• in the myocardium at E14.5
• however, there is no statistically significant change in apoptosis in the epicardium or in the heart at E9.5
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muscle
• does not display organized clusters of smooth muscle cells or vascular structures unlike wild-type myocardium
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• proliferation of cardiac myocytes is decreased at E14.5
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• in the myocardium at E14.5
• however, there is no statistically significant change in apoptosis in the epicardium or in the heart at E9.5
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nervous system
hydrocephaly
(
J:124610
)
• the spinal cord is obstructed in mutants
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