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heart tube
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http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0004141
Term info
Label
heart tube
Subsets
efo_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core
definition
An epithelial tube that will give rise to the mature heart.
external definition
the paired, longitudinal, endothelial-lined channels formed from the cardiogenic mesoderm in embryonic development; angiogenic cell clusters (aka angioblastic cords) located in a horse-shoe shape configuration in the cardiogenic plate coalesce to form the right and left endocardial heart tubes which then fuse in cephalo-caudal direction to form a single primitive heart tube.
has exact synonym
embryonic heart tube, endocardial tube, endocardial heart tube
has obo namespace
uberon
id
UBERON:0004141
imported from
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/uberon.owl, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/cl.owl
Term relations
Subclass of:
- meso-epithelium
- embryonic tissue
- epithelial tube
- immediate transformation of some primitive heart tube
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