The role of Wnt signalling in cardiac development and tissue remodelling in the mature heart

被引：113

作者：

Brade, Thomas

Maenner, Joerg

Kuehl, Michael

机构：

[1] Univ Ulm, Dept Biochem & Mol Biol, D-89081 Ulm, Germany

[2] Univ Gottingen, Dept Anat & Embryol, D-37075 Gottingen, Germany

来源：

CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH | 2006年 / 72卷 / 02期

关键词：

Wnt; frizzled; cardiac development; cardiac specification; cardiac morphogenesis; cardiac remodelling;

D O I：

10.1016/j.cardiores.2006.06.025

中图分类号：

R5 [内科学];

学科分类号：

1002 ; 100201 ;

摘要：

The heart is one of the first organs to function in the developing embryo. Vertebrate heart development can be subdivided into different phases, e.g. specification of myo- and endocardial progenitor cells during the establishment of heart-forming fields within the anterior lateral plate mesoderm, formation of the linear heart tube by merging of the paired heart-forming fields in front of the foregut, looping of the heart tube and transformation of the tubular embryonic heart into the four-chambered heart. The molecular mechanisms underlying these processes are phylogenetically remarkably conserved and involve the activation of specific transcriptional programs by different extracellular growth factors. In this review, we will focus on the functions of the Writ family of growth factors in normal cardiac development and in tissue remodelling in the mature heart under pathological conditions. (c) 2006 European Society of Cardiology. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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页码：198 / 209

页数：12

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