Book chapter
Neural Crest
Congenital Heart Diseases: The Broken Heart, pp.125-143
Advances in experimental medicine and biology, v. 1441, Springer, Second edition
01/01/2024
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-44087-8_6
Abstract
This chapter discusses the role of cardiac neural crest cells in the formation of the septum that divides the cardiac arterial pole into separate systemic and pulmonary arteries. Further, cardiac neural crest cells directly support the normal development and patterning of derivatives of the caudal pharyngeal arches, including the great arteries, thymus, thyroid, and parathyroids. Recently, cardiac neural crest cells have also been shown to indirectly influence the development of the secondary heart field, another derivative of the caudal pharynx, by modulating signaling in the pharynx. The contribution and function of the cardiac neural crest cells has been learned in avian models; most of the genes associated with cardiac neural crest function have been identified using mouse models. Together these studies show that the neural crest cells may not only critical for normal cardiovascular development but also may be involved secondarily because they represent a major component in the complex tissue interactions in the caudal pharynx and outflow tract. Cardiac neural crest cells span from the caudal pharynx into the outflow tract, and therefore may be susceptible to any perturbation in or by other cells in these regions. Thus, understanding congenital cardiac outflow malformations in human sequences of malformations resulting from genetic and/or environmental insults necessarily requires better understanding the role of cardiac neural crest cells in cardiac development.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Neural Crest
- Creators
- Bijoy D Thattaliyath - University of IowaAnthony B Firulli
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Congenital Heart Diseases: The Broken Heart, pp.125-143
- Edition
- Second edition
- Publisher
- Springer; Cham, Switzerland
- Series
- Advances in experimental medicine and biology; v. 1441
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-031-44087-8_6
- ISSN
- 0065-2598
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/2024
- Academic Unit
- Stead Family Department of Pediatrics; Cardiology
- Record Identifier
- 9984642760302771
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