Term Name: heart looping
Synonyms: cardiac looping
Definition: The tube morphogenesis process in which the primitive heart tube loops asymmetrically. This looping brings the primitive heart chambers into alignment preceding their future integration. Heart looping begins with dextral-looping and ends when the main regional divisions of the mature heart and primordium of the great arterial trunks become established preceeding septation.
Ontology: GO: Biological Process [GO:0001947]   QuickGO   AmiGO

Relationships
is part of: determination of heart left/right asymmetry
is a type of: embryonic heart tube morphogenesis
negatively regulated by: negative regulation of heart looping
positively regulated by: positive regulation of heart looping
regulated by: regulation of heart looping