part of
part_of
part of
ends during
starts during
heart primordium
cardiac progenitor cell
eriksegerdell
XAO:0003268
CPC
2009-12-01T04:42:20Z
Type of presumptive precardiac cell that lie as paired primordia 30 to 45 degrees on either side of the dorsal midline of the embryo. As gastrulation proceeds, these migrate laterally, eventually fusing at the anterior ventral midline, where they differentiate into cardiac tissue. They give rise to the linear heart tube of the fused heart primordium and derive from the cardiac crescent.
xenopus_anatomy
progenitor cell
NF stage 14
NF stage 19