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The heart-forming fields: one or multiple?

Antoon F M Moorman1, Vincent M Christoffels, Robert H Anderson

  • 1Heart Failure Research Center, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands. a.f.moorman@amc.uva.nl

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences
|June 22, 2007
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The heart

Area of Science:

  • Developmental biology
  • Cardiovascular research
  • Evolutionary biology

Background:

  • The classic cardiac crescent was historically considered the sole source of heart-forming cells.
  • Recent findings identify a second mesodermal region, the pharyngeal mesoderm, as an additional source of cardiomyocytes.
  • This challenges established views on cardiac development and heart formation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review the concept of primary and secondary cardiogenic fields in heart development.
  • To discuss the evolutionary timeline of heart structure formation.
  • To propose a unified model for cardiac development from a single field.

Main Methods:

  • Review of existing literature on cardiac development.
  • Analysis of evolutionary data on heart structures.

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  • Conceptual synthesis of primary and secondary cardiogenic fields.

    • Main Results:

    • The primary cardiogenic field (classic cardiac crescent) formed components for systemic circulation (sinus venosus, atrium, left ventricle, arterial cone).
    • A secondary field (pharyngeal mesoderm) contributed to pulmonary circulation components (right ventricle, parts of left atrium).
    • Evolutionary pressures and novel signaling pathways likely drove the development of the secondary field.

    Conclusions:

    • The heart's systemic and pulmonary components may derive from a single cardiac field, with temporal delays in formation.
    • The distinction between primary and secondary fields might represent a temporal patterning within a unified developmental process.
    • This perspective offers a revised understanding of heart evolution and cardiomyocyte origins.