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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-8-17
pubmed:abstractText
Identification of multipotent cardiac progenitors has provided important insights into the mechanisms of myocardial lineage specification, yet has done little to clarify the origin of the endocardium. Despite its essential role in heart development, characterization of the endocardial lineage has been limited by the lack of specific markers of this early vascular subpopulation. To distinguish endocardium from other vasculature, we generated an NFATc1-nuc-LacZ BAC transgenic mouse line capable of labeling this specific endothelial subpopulation at the earliest stages of cardiac development. To further characterize endocardiogenesis, embryonic stem cells (ESCs) derived from NFATc1-nuc-LacZ blastocysts were utilized to demonstrate that endocardial differentiation in vitro recapitulates the close temporal-spatial relationship observed between myocardium and endocardium seen in vivo. Endocardium is specified as a cardiac cell lineage, independent from other vascular populations, responding to BMP and Wnt signals that enhance cardiomyocyte differentiation. Furthermore, a population of Flk1+ cardiovascular progenitors, distinct from hemangioblast precursors, represents a mesodermal precursor of the endocardial endothelium, as well as other cardiovascular lineages. Taken together, these studies emphasize that the endocardium is a unique cardiac lineage and provides further evidence that endocardium and myocardium are derived from a common precursor.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
1095-564X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
1
pubmed:volume
333
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
78-89
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-9-22
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:19576203-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:19576203-Antigens, Differentiation, pubmed-meshheading:19576203-Cell Differentiation, pubmed-meshheading:19576203-Cell Lineage, pubmed-meshheading:19576203-Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:19576203-Embryonic Stem Cells, pubmed-meshheading:19576203-Endocardium, pubmed-meshheading:19576203-Endothelial Cells, pubmed-meshheading:19576203-Hematopoietic Stem Cells, pubmed-meshheading:19576203-Mesoderm, pubmed-meshheading:19576203-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:19576203-Mice, Transgenic, pubmed-meshheading:19576203-Multipotent Stem Cells, pubmed-meshheading:19576203-Muscle, Smooth, Vascular, pubmed-meshheading:19576203-Myocytes, Cardiac, pubmed-meshheading:19576203-Myocytes, Smooth Muscle, pubmed-meshheading:19576203-NFATC Transcription Factors, pubmed-meshheading:19576203-Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Receptor-2
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
Endocardial cells are a distinct endothelial lineage derived from Flk1+ multipotent cardiovascular progenitors.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Cardiology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural