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heart tube
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An epithelial tube that will give rise to the mature heart. [ http://amigo.geneontology.org/amigo/term/GO:0003143 ]
Term info
Label
heart tube
Synonyms
- embryonic heart tube
- endocardial heart tube
- endocardial tube
Subsets
efo_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core
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 obo namespace
uberon
id
UBERON:0004141
Term relations
Subclass of:
- epithelium
- zebrafish component
- part of some embryonic structure
- part of some embryo
- part of some multicellular organism