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Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease, Volume 8, Issue 2

February 2021 - 17 articles

Cover Story: The zebrafish is an accessible model to study early heart morphogenesis and causes of congenital heart disease as the zebrafish heart integrates the core processes and cell lineages central to cardiac development across vertebrates. Amenable to in vivo imaging and genetic manipulations, zebrafish provide versatile tools to study cardiac fate emergence, heart field migration, or myocardial progenitor differentiation. Combining transgenic reporters with rapid genome engineering allows for functional testing of candidate genes associated with heart defects and the discovery of underlying molecular mechanisms. In our review, we summarize key insights gained through zebrafish studies into the early patterning of uncommitted lateral plate mesoderm into cardiac progenitors and their regulation. View this paper.
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Articles (17)

  • Review
  • Open Access
54 Citations
10,832 Views
14 Pages

Characterization of Degenerative Mitral Valve Disease: Differences between Fibroelastic Deficiency and Barlow’s Disease

  • Aniek L. van Wijngaarden,
  • Boudewijn P. T. Kruithof,
  • Tommaso Vinella,
  • Daniela Q. C. M. Barge-Schaapveld and
  • Nina Ajmone Marsan

Degenerative mitral valve disease causing mitral valve prolapse is the most common cause of primary mitral regurgitation, with two distinct phenotypes generally recognized with some major differences, i.e., fibroelastic deficiency (FED) and Barlow’s...

  • Review
  • Open Access
48 Citations
7,425 Views
17 Pages

Role of Selected miRNAs as Diagnostic and Prognostic Biomarkers in Cardiovascular Diseases, Including Coronary Artery Disease, Myocardial Infarction and Atherosclerosis

  • Rashid Mir,
  • Imadeldin Elfaki,
  • Naina Khullar,
  • Ajaz Ahmad Waza,
  • Chandan Jha,
  • Mohammad Muzaffar Mir,
  • Shamsu Nisa,
  • Babar Mohammad,
  • Tahir Ahmad Mir and
  • Mohsin Maqbool
  • + 3 authors

Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide in different cohorts. It is well known that miRNAs have a crucial role in regulating the development of cardiovascular physiology, thus impacting the pathophysiology of heart diseases....

  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,619 Views
14 Pages

The Lymphatic System in Zebrafish Heart Development, Regeneration and Disease Modeling

  • Xidi Feng,
  • Stanislao Travisano,
  • Caroline A. Pearson,
  • Ching-Ling Lien and
  • Michael R. M. Harrison

Heart disease remains the single largest cause of death in developed countries, and novel therapeutic interventions are desperately needed to alleviate this growing burden. The cardiac lymphatic system is the long-overlooked counterpart of the corona...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,481 Views
21 Pages

Changes in Body Size during Early Growth Are Independently Associated with Arterial Properties in Early Childhood

  • Juan M. Castro,
  • Mariana Marin,
  • Agustina Zinoveev,
  • Victoria García-Espinosa,
  • Pedro Chiesa,
  • Daniel Bia and
  • Yanina Zócalo

Nutritional status in early life stages has been associated with arterial parameters in childhood. However, it is still controversial whether changes in standardized body weight (z-BW), height (z-BH), BW for height (z-BWH) and/or body mass index (z-B...

  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
8,674 Views
16 Pages

Robert Anderson has made a huge contribution to almost all aspects of morphology and understanding of congenital cardiac malformations, none more so than the group of anomalies that many of those in the practice of paediatric cardiology and adult con...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
32 Citations
6,123 Views
6 Pages

Sinus Bradycardia Associated with Remdesivir Treatment in COVID-19: A Case Report and Literature Review

  • Fotios Barkas,
  • Chrysoula-Paraskevi Styla,
  • Aris Bechlioulis,
  • Haralampos Milionis and
  • Evangelos Liberopoulos

Background: Although remdesivir treatment is widely used during the pandemic coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), there is scarce evidence regarding its cardiac side effects. Case presentation: We report the case of a 36-year-old male hospitalized du...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,756 Views
8 Pages

The bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) is the most common congenital cardiac malformation associated with aortopathy. The current study provides surgical clinical data on the patient characteristics and long-term survival of this less common adult purely BA...

  • Review
  • Open Access
47 Citations
11,714 Views
22 Pages

From Stripes to a Beating Heart: Early Cardiac Development in Zebrafish

  • Cassie L. Kemmler,
  • Fréderike W. Riemslagh,
  • Hannah R. Moran and
  • Christian Mosimann

The heart is the first functional organ to form during vertebrate development. Congenital heart defects are the most common type of human birth defect, many originating as anomalies in early heart development. The zebrafish model provides an accessib...

  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,342 Views
17 Pages

Proper development and function of the vertebrate heart is vital for embryonic and postnatal life. Many congenital heart defects in humans are associated with disruption of genes that direct the formation or maintenance of atrial and pacemaker cardio...

  • Review
  • Open Access
31 Citations
8,770 Views
27 Pages

The heart is the first functional organ in a developing embryo. Cardiac development continues throughout developmental stages while the heart goes through a serious of drastic morphological changes. Previous animal experiments as well as clinical obs...

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J. Cardiovasc. Dev. Dis. - ISSN 2308-3425