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Yap And Taz Are Required For Neural Crest-Derived Cardiovascular Development, Shannon Erhardt
Yap And Taz Are Required For Neural Crest-Derived Cardiovascular Development, Shannon Erhardt
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Congenital heart defects (CHDs) are the most common human birth defect, occurring in ~1/100 newborns, and are a leading cause of early infant death. Cardiac neural crest cells (NCCs) are a migratory and multipotent cell population known to aid in the development of the cardiac outflow tract (OFT), valves, and interventricular septum, during embryogenesis. Yap and Taz are downstream effectors of the fundamental Hippo signaling pathway and are vital for proper organ and tissue development, yet their role in neural crest (NC)-derived heart formation is still largely unknown. We generated Yap and Taz conditional knockout (CKO) mice using a Cre-lox …