The local expression of adult chicken heart myosins during development. I. The three days embryonic chicken heart

E. Sanders, A. F. Moorman, J. A. Los

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Abstract

Immunofluorescence studies were performed on serial sections of three days embryonic chicken hearts using antibodies specific for adult atrial and ventricular myosin heavy chains respectively. The anti-ventricular myosin serum reacted with the entire myocardium showing a decreasing intensity going from the truncus arteriosus to the atrial part; however, the antiatrial myosin serum reacted weakly with the myocardium of the atrial part. Two other interesting observations were made, i) the anti-atrial myosin serum reacted with non-myocardial cells in the cardiac jelly, ii) both antisera reacted with a thin myocardial layer, extending from the ventral wall of the atrial part via the medio-dorsal wall of the atrio-ventricular canal to the dorsal wall of the ventricular part
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)185-191
JournalAnatomy and embryology
Volume169
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1984

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