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The endocardium is initially observed as a bilayer of cells and eventually splits into dorsal and ventral layers, which move apart from each other allowing the lumen to become visible between the layers (see Videos 6 and 7 for confocal views and Video 8 for a bright field view). To identify the changes associated to cardiomyocyte differentiation at the cellular level, we labeled single cells with membrane-GFP (see Materials and methods).

These observations suggest that SHF cells do not represent just a reservoir of cardiac precursors but play a morphogenetic role essential for heart tube formation.B’) Inset in ( B): arrow points the transition between cTnnT+ and cTnnT- domains, corresponding to FHF and SHF, respectively. What’s more, it seems there is only Mouse’s efforts that he might rely upon to hunt down the real assassin. Images are z-maximum projection of nine sections acquired every 4 μm covering 36 μm (h:mm:ss) and allows visualization of the inside of the cardiac lumen during HT formation. This atmospheric thriller, full of daring stunts and sinister villains, is perfect escapism for listeners. During vertebrate heart development, two progenitor populations, first and second heart fields (FHF, SHF), sequentially contribute to longitudinal subdivisions of the heart tube (HT), with the FHF contributing the left ventricle and part of the atria, and the SHF the rest of the heart.

Cells in the cardiac mesoderm do divide during the observation time, so we identified cell division events and tracked the descendant cells. H) The position of cells that differentiate (green) and cells that do not is shown in the cc at the initial time point (EHF stage).When one is imprisoned for murder she has to solve the clues and work out who really commited the crime. i, ii and iii) Rationale of the expected evolution of GFP expression: since tracks carry information on reporter expression, if a cell acquires a high level of GFP, we predict that it is committed to differentiate. All animal procedures were approved by the CNIC Animal Experimentation Ethics Committee, by the Community of Madrid (Ref.

cre-labeled lineages, including both FHF and SHF, and the cTnnT +tissues, including only the FHF/cc, which allowed visualizing the boundary between SHF and cc at the tissue level ( Figure 2A,B,B’, Figure 2—figure supplement 1, Video 3 and see Materials and methods – non-cardiac tdtomato signal was removed manually).This study further confirmed that SHF differentiation at the arterial pole is initiated when the HT is about to close dorsally but not before ( Figure 9C). Here, we show the relevance of differentiation timing regulation during heart tube formation and its coordination with morphogenesis at the tissue level. The live imaging, however, did not allow to unambiguously identify all cells located deep inside the live tissue at the final stages recorded.

reporter line, which provides high level of GFP in differentiated cardiomyocytes, we studied the dynamics of cardiac field differentiation. Now living outside Bath, between parenting and writing, Fleur works with her husband, a toymaker, looks after other people's gardens and tries to grow vegetables. The initial location of this cell population fated to become cc cardiomyocytes delineates a crescent-shaped domain at EHF stage ( Figure 5H).I was at my last school for 4 years and we had ********* book fairs every term – and every term, I was disappointed by the narrow range of books.