Expression of smooth muscle alpha-actin
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Yuji Nakajima; Vladimir Mironov; Toshiyuki Yamagishi; Hiroaki Nakamura; Roger R
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Article
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1997
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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During early cardiac morphogenesis, outflow tract (OT) and atrio-ventricular (AV) endothelial cells differentiate into mesenchymal cells, which have characteristics of smooth muscle-like myofibroblasts, and which form endocardial cushion tissue, the primordia of valves, and septa in the adult heart.