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Left-right asymmetry and cardiac looping: implications for cardiac development and congenital heart disease.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  11376438     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
Proper morphogenesis and positioning of internal organs requires delivery and interpretation of precise signals along the anterior-posterior, dorsal-ventral, and left-right axes. An elegant signaling cascade determines left- versus right-sided identity in visceral organs in a concordant fashion, resulting in a predictable left-right (LR) organ asymmetry in all vertebrates. The complex morphogenesis of the heart and its connections to the vasculature are particularly dependent upon coordinated LR signaling pathways. Disorganization of LR signals can result in myriad congenital heart defects that are a consequence of abnormal looping and remodeling of the primitive heart tube into a multi-chambered organ. A framework for understanding how LR asymmetric signals contribute to normal organogenesis has emerged and begins to explain the basis of many human diseases of LR asymmetry. Here we review the impact of LR signaling pathways on cardiac development and congenital heart disease.
Authors:
I S Kathiriya; D Srivastava
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.; Review    
Journal Detail:
Title:  American journal of medical genetics     Volume:  97     ISSN:  0148-7299     ISO Abbreviation:  Am. J. Med. Genet.     Publication Date:  2000  
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2001-05-28     Completed Date:  2001-08-23     Revised Date:  2006-11-15    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  7708900     Medline TA:  Am J Med Genet     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  271-9     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, 75390-9148, USA.
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Abnormalities, Multiple / embryology,  genetics
Animals
Body Patterning / genetics
Chick Embryo
Fetal Heart / growth & development*,  ultrastructure
Fetal Proteins / genetics,  physiology
Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental*
Heart / embryology
Heart Defects, Congenital / embryology*,  genetics
Homeodomain Proteins / genetics,  physiology
Humans
Mice
Morphogenesis / genetics*
Nuclear Proteins*
Paired Box Transcription Factors
Situs Inversus / embryology,  genetics
Transcription Factors / genetics,  physiology
Viscera / abnormalities
Xenopus laevis / embryology
Zebrafish / embryology
Chemical
Reg. No./Substance:
0/Fetal Proteins; 0/Homeodomain Proteins; 0/Nuclear Proteins; 0/Paired Box Transcription Factors; 0/Transcription Factors; 0/homeobox protein PITX1; 0/homeobox protein PITX3; 184787-43-7/homeobox protein PITX2

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