PUBLICATION
A Southpaw Joins the Roster: The Role of the Zebrafish nodal-related Gene Southpaw in Cardiac LR Asymmetry
- Authors
- Ahmad, N., Long, S., and Rebagliati, M.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-040322-6
- Date
- 2004
- Source
- Trends in cardiovascular medicine 14(2): 43-49 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Ahmad, Nadira, Rebagliati, Michael
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Body Patterning/genetics*
- Embryonic Induction/genetics
- Fetal Heart/growth & development
- Fetal Proteins/genetics
- Fetal Proteins/physiology
- Heart/embryology
- Heart Defects, Congenital/embryology
- Heart Defects, Congenital/genetics*
- Humans
- Morphogenesis/genetics
- Transcription Factors/genetics
- Transcription Factors/physiology
- Zebrafish
- PubMed
- 15030788 Full text @ Trends Cardiovasc. Med.
Citation
Ahmad, N., Long, S., and Rebagliati, M. (2004) A Southpaw Joins the Roster: The Role of the Zebrafish nodal-related Gene Southpaw in Cardiac LR Asymmetry. Trends in cardiovascular medicine. 14(2):43-49.
Abstract
The establishment of the left-right (LR) asymmetry of the zebrafish heart involves at least two discrete events: cardiac jogging and cardiac looping. The nodal-related gene southpaw is required for both aspects of heart LR asymmetry as well as for LR patterning of other visceral organs. Reductions in southpaw activity abolish the normal LR biases of jogging and looping and uncouple the normal correlation between jogging and looping polarities. These loss-of-function experiments also reveal that southpaw is required for organizing at least the initial phase of diencephalic LR asymmetry and suggest that heart and brain LR patterning may be coordinated by southpaw signaling originating within the anterior, left lateral plate mesoderm.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping