Publications by authors named "Kaoru Mizukami"
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- Coronary arteries are vital for heart nourishment in humans, and their defects can lead to serious health issues, highlighting their evolutionary significance.
- Some fish species (teleosts) manage to survive without coronary arteries, indicating that tetrapods underwent significant evolutionary changes regarding these blood vessels.
- The study suggests that true ventricular coronary arteries in amniotes (like mammals and birds) evolved from ancestral structures during development, reflecting major morphological advancements in the vascular system over time.
The origin of the mammalian lymphatic vasculature has been studied for more than a century; however, details regarding organ-specific lymphatic development remain unknown. A recent study reported that cardiac lymphatic endothelial cells (LECs) stem from venous and non-venous origins in mice. Here, we identified Isl1-expressing progenitors as a potential non-venous origin of cardiac LECs.
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