TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Basic Biology of the Cardiovascular System A1 - Loscalzo, Joseph A1 - Libby, Peter A1 - MacRae, Calum A. A2 - Jameson, J. Larry A2 - Fauci, Anthony S. A2 - Kasper, Dennis L. A2 - Hauser, Stephen L. A2 - Longo, Dan L. A2 - Loscalzo, Joseph Y1 - 2018 N1 - T2 - Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 20e AB - The heart forms early during embryogenesis (Fig. 232-1), circulating blood, nutrients, and oxygen to the other developing organs while continuing to grow and undergo complex morphogenetic changes. Early cardiac progenitors arise within crescent-shaped fields of lateral splanchnic mesoderm under the influence of multiple signals and migrate to the midline to form the linear heart tube: a single layer of endocardium and a single layer of cardiomyocyte precursors. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/29 UR - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1155972889 ER -