Coordination of heart and lung co-development by a multipotent cardiopulmonary progenitor
Co-development of the cardiovascular and pulmonary systems is a recent evolutionary adaption to terrestrial life that couples cardiac output with the gas exchange function of the lung 1. In this report, we show that the pulmonary vasculature develops even in the absence of lung development. We have...
| Main Authors: | , , , , , , , |
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| Format: | Online |
| Language: | English |
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2013
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| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3758448/ |