Regulation of the diversification of the nodal and chamber myocardium

Thesis

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Table of contents

Scope

Chapter 1: Can recent insights into cardiac development improve our understanding of congenitally malformed hearts?

Chapter 2: Distinct regulation of developmental and heart diseaseinduced atrial natriuretic factor expression by two separate distal sequences

Chapter 3: Interplay between Tbx20, Tbx2/Tbx3 and Bmp/Smadsignaling controls compartmentalization of the developing heart tube into working chambers and the atrioventricular canal

Chapter 4: Gene expression profiling of the forming atrioventricular node using a novel Tbx3-based node-specific transgenic reporter

Summary

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