mortality/aging
• do not survive past day E10.5
(J:71845)
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cardiovascular system
• E9.5 hearts have a single columnar ventricle projecting from the chest cavity and posterior structures (atria and left ventricle) are severely hypoplastic
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• impaired cardiac differentiation
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• AV cushion formation was not initiated
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• cardiac looping did not occur
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• deformed linear heart tube was observed with a hypoplastic posterior heart segment and continued growth of anterior segments
• sinoatrial structures (i.e., primitive atria and inflow tract) and the primitive LV were severely hypoplastic in these embryos
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common atrium
(
J:71845
)
• only a single small atrium is seen at E9.5
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embryo
• development seems to be arrested at E9.5
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