Xenbase: atlas: heart

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Atlas: tissues: heart		(click to view enlargement)	Images are Copyright © 2000 Academic Press

1A Stage27: tropomyosin	1B Stage 31: tropomyosin	1C Stage 33: tropomyosin	1D Stage 35: cardiac troponin T

1E Stage 41: cardiac troponin T	1F Stage 46: cardiac troponin T	2A Stage 27: fibrillin	2B Stage 35: fibrillin

3E Stage 31 tropomyosin (red) fibrillin (green), ventral view, anterior is up	3F, as per 3E, but a deeper stack	3G. as per 3F, but a deeper stack	3H, as per 3G, but a deeper stack

3I. as per 3H but a deeper stack.	4A.Stage 35, cardiac troponin T (red) and fibrillin (green). ventral view	4B. as per 4A but deeper stack	4C. Stage 41, cardiac troponin T (red) and fibrillin (green). ventral view

3D. Stage 28	4E. Stage 44, , cardiac troponin T (red) and fibrillin (green). ventral view	4F. as per 4E but deeper stack	5A. Stage 46, cardiac troponin T (red) and fibrillin (green). This is the first of a series of dorsal to ventral stacks (5A - 5F)

5B. Stage 46 stack#2	5C. Stage 46 stack#3	5D. Stage 46 stack#4	5E. Stage 46 stack#5

5F. Stage 46 stack#6	Stage 46, cardiac troponin T (red) type VI collagen (green)


Confocal images of Xenopus heart development submitted by Sandra Kolker and Dan Weeks. This section will be expanded over the next few weeks, please check back...		Kolker SJ, Tajchman U, Weeks DL . Confocal imaging of early heart development in Xenopus laevis. Developmental Biology 218(1):64-73
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