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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Cardiac looping"”.
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How the Heart Grows: From Multi-scale Data to a Multi-scale Model
… believed to be highly conserved in vertebrates. Cardiac precursor cells form a cardiac crescent at the embryonic midline. Fusion of the cardiac crescent results in the linear heart tube formation. The heart tube then undergoes a bending, elongation and twisting prior to further bending and …
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Biophysical Mechanisms of Early Heart Morphogenesis
… (HT) undergoes the morphogenetic process of c-looping as it bends and twists into a c-shaped tube. All these transformations require physical forces, which remain poorly understood.</p><p>The aim of this dissertation is to elucidate some of the biophysical mechanisms that create and shape the …