Risk Factors for Congenital Heart Defects May Lie Both Inside and Outside the Heart (IMAGE)

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Risk Factors for Congenital Heart Defects May Lie Both Inside and Outside the Heart

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Optical projection tomography of an E10.5 Nipbl+/- mouse embryo shows, on the left, a three-dimensional reconstruction of the embryo with heart highlighted in red; on the right is an optical section through the heart showing an abnormally small right ventricle.

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Benedikt Hallgrimsson/University of Calgary

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