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ArticleDevelopmental cell2025

Myocardium and endocardium of the early mammalian heart tube arise from independent multipotent lineages specified at the primitive streak.

Miquel Sendra, Katie McDole, Juan de Dios Hourcade, Susana Temiño, Morena Raiola, Léo Guignard, Philipp J Keller, Jorge N Domínguez, Miguel Torres

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Article in Developmental cell, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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9 authors.

Miquel SendraFundación Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC), 28029 Madrid, Spain. Electronic address: miquel.sendra@cnic.es.
Katie McDoleMRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK.
Juan de Dios HourcadeFundación Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC), 28029 Madrid, Spain.
Susana TemiñoFundación Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC), 28029 Madrid, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Cardiovasculares (CIBERCV), 28029 Madrid, Spain.
Morena RaiolaFundación Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC), 28029 Madrid, Spain.
Léo GuignardCNRS, UTLN, LIS 7020, Turing Centre for Living Systems, Aix Marseille University, Marseille, France.
Philipp J KellerJanelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA 20147, USA.
Jorge N DomínguezCentro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Cardiovasculares (CIBERCV), 28029 Madrid, Spain; Department of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences University of Jaén, Jaén 23071, Spain.
Miguel TorresFundación Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC), 28029 Madrid, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Cardiovasculares (CIBERCV), 28029 Madrid, Spain. Electronic address: mtorres@cnic.es.

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_UP_1201/23
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The formation of the primitive heart tube from cardiomyocytes and endocardial cells is a key event in mammalian development. Previous studies suggested that cardiomyocytes and endocardial cells segregate from a shared cardiac progenitor around the onset of gastrulation, yet their lineage relationship with other mesodermal tissues remains unclear. Using retrospective and prospective clonal analyses in mouse embryos, we traced cardiomyocyte and endocardial progenitors from the primitive streak to the heart tube. Our results identify two independent mesodermal populations specified around gastrulation onset. While each of these populations is unipotent in producing cardiomyocytes or endocardium, they retain multipotency and contribute to different subsets of non-cardiac mesoderm. Nonetheless, live imaging identifies simultaneous ingression and intermingling of these two mesodermal lineages in the primitive streak, showing their coordinated specification and migration. The proposed model for cardiac progenitor specification will help understanding the origins of congenital heart diseases and designing tissue engineering strategies.

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Cell LineageEndocardiumHeartMyocardiumMyocytes, CardiacPrimitive StreakAnimalsCell DifferentiationCell MovementEmbryo, MammalianGastrulationMesodermMicecardiac progenitorscardiomyocytescell fateclonal analysisendocardial cellsheart developmentlineage specificationlineage tracinglive imagingmesoderm

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PMID40436021
PMCPMC7618247

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