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ZDB-FIG-080604-37

Publication

Chi et al., 2008 - Genetic and Physiologic Dissection of the Vertebrate Cardiac Conduction System

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Fig. 1

Cellular and In Vivo Electrophysiologic Analysis of 24 hpf Wild-Type Hearts
(A) Sequential calcium activation images of a 24 hpf wild-type Tg(cmlc2:gCaMP)^s878 heart during a single cycle in a live zebrafish embryo.

(B) A 24 hpf optical map of calcium excitation represented by isochronal lines every 60 ms. Slow linear conduction with no significant delays is observed across the 24 hpf heart tube with increased conduction velocity over the presumptive ventricle (arrow).

(C) Tg(cmlc2:eGFP-ras)^s883 (green) embryos at 24 hpf are stained with rhodamine phalloidin (red) and TOPRO (dark blue). The heart is a linear tube, and cardiomyocytes uniformly have a squamous shape except at the OFT (yellow box) where they have become cuboidal.

(D) Schematic representation of the heart shown in (C). Myocardium is in red. Endocardium is in blue.

(E and F) In situ analysis of 24 hpf embryos reveals molecular chamber specification within the heart tube: atrial myosin heavy chain, amhc, and ventricular myosin heavy chain, vmhc. Lateral views.

(G) Schematic representation of conduction in 24 hpf heart. Numbers indicate temporal sequence of calcium activation in the heart. Yellow arrow indicates direction of cardiac conduction. Green circle indicates slow conduction pathway/pacemaker activity.

SV, sinus venosus; V, ventricle; At, atrium.

Expression Data

Genes:	EGFP myh6 myh7
Fish:	WT s878Tg s883Tg
Anatomical Terms:	presumptive bulbus arteriosus presumptive cardiac ventricle heart tube presumptive sinus venosus primitive heart tube
Stage:	Prim-5

Expression Detail

Antibody Labeling

Phenotype Data

Fish:	s878Tg
Observed In:	heart contraction
Stage:	Prim-5

Phenotype Detail

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