Cardiac Looping (IMAGE)

Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association

Cardiac Looping

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An explanted zebrafish heart loops on its own in a petri dish (left), but without the Frizzled-7a factor necessary for Planar Cell Polarity signaling, it remains tubular (right).

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Anne M. Merks, MDC

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