Fig. 3: Spatial single-cell morphometrics reveals that patterned tension in the second heart field emerges during heart tube formation. | Nature Communications

Fig. 3: Spatial single-cell morphometrics reveals that patterned tension in the second heart field emerges during heart tube formation.

From: Single-cell morphometrics reveals T-box gene-dependent patterns of epithelial tension in the Second Heart field

Fig. 3: Spatial single-cell morphometrics reveals that patterned tension in the second heart field emerges during heart tube formation.The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI.

a, b. Scheme of the architecture of the SHF at embryonic days 8.5 (a) and 9.5 (b) showing breakdown of the dorsal mesocardium (DM) between these timepoints. c Frontal view of E8.5 wild-type whole mount dorsal pericardial wall, main cell orientation map, stress map and cluster map. d Frontal view of E9.5 wild-type whole-mount dorsal pericardial wall, main cell orientation map, stress map and cluster map. Scale bars: 100 µm. NT neural tube, AP arterial pole, VP venous pole, r right, l left, d′ dorsal, v ventral, a anterior, p posterior. Wild-type E8.5: N = 6 embryos, n = 2994 cells; wild-type E9.5: N = 6 embryos, n = 8618 cells.

Back to article page