cardiovascular system
• at E10.5, mutant hearts show no discernible differences in chamber identity or cardiac looping; no evidence of cardia bifida, atrial expansion or sinus venosus obliteration is observed
• however, mutant hearts display excessive fibronection deposition in cardiac jelly at E9.0 through E10.5 and in valves of the outflow tract and atrioventricular canal at E12.5
• notably, increased fibronectin deposition is caused by altered synthesis and/or degradation of fibronectin protein as opposed to increased fibronectin transcript levels
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muscle
cellular