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ArticleJournal of visualized experiments : JoVE2019

Analysis of Cardiac Chamber Development During Mouse Embryogenesis Using Whole Mount Epifluorescence.

Zhentao Zhang, Young-Jae Nam

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Article in Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
0.1field-weighted citation impact, top 54% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Biology open · 2019
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Zhentao ZhangDepartment of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center; Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University; Vanderbilt Center for Stem Cell Biology, Vanderbilt University.
Young-Jae NamDepartment of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center; Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University; Vanderbilt Center for Stem Cell Biology, Vanderbilt University; young-jae.nam@vanderbilt.edu.
Vanderbilt University · USVanderbilt University Medical Center · US

Funding

LSM880-Airyscan Confocal Microscope for Large Shared ResourceS10OD021630 · OD · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI WELLS, K. SAM · 2016 to 2016
$560k
Defining cardiomyocyte reprogramming induced heart repairR03HL140264 · NHLBI · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI NAM, YOUNG-JAE · 2017 to 2018
$158k
NHLBI NIH HHS R03 HL140264NIH HHS S10 OD021630
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The goal of this protocol is to describe a method for the dissection of mouse embryos and visualization of embryonic mouse ventricular chambers during heart development using ventricular specific fluorescent reporter knock-in mice (MLC-2v-tdTomato mice). Heart development involves a linear heart tube formation, the heart tube looping, and four chamber septation. These complex processes are highly conserved in all vertebrates. The mouse embryonic heart has been widely used for heart developmental studies. However, due to their extremely small size, dissecting mouse embryonic hearts is technically challenging. In addition, visualization of cardiac chamber formation often needs in situ hybridization, beta-galactosidase staining using LacZ reporter mice, or immunostaining of sectioned embryonic hearts. Here, we describe how to dissect mouse embryonic hearts and directly visualize ventricular chamber formation of MLC-2v-tdTomato mice using whole mount epifluorescent microscopy. With this method, it is possible to directly examine heart tube formation and looping, and four chamber formation without further experimental manipulation of mouse embryos. Although the MLC-2v-tdTomato reporter knock-in mouse line is used in this protocol as an example, this protocol can be applied to other heart-specific fluorescent reporter transgenic mouse lines.

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Embryonic DevelopmentAnimalsEmbryo, MammalianFemaleFluorescenceGenotypeHeartIn Situ HybridizationMaleMiceMice, Transgenic

Identifiers

PMID31058904
PMCPMC8017474
OpenAlexW2937867040

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