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The primary heart field, secondary heart field, cardiac neural crest, and proepicardial organ are the four major embryonic regions involved in vertebrate heart development. They each make an important contribution to cardiac development with complex developmental timing and regulation. This chapter describes how these regions interact to form the final structure of the heart in relationship to the developmental timeline of human embryology.

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Martinsen, B.J., Lohr, J.L. (2009). Cardiac Development. In: Iaizzo, P. (eds) Handbook of Cardiac Anatomy, Physiology, and Devices. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60327-372-5_3

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