Andy Wessels

Research interests

Publications

• Mutations in DCHS1 cause mitral valve prolapse

  Nature · 2015 · 10.1038/nature14670

• Epicardially derived fibroblasts preferentially contribute to the parietal leaflets of the atrioventricular valves in the murine heart

  Developmental Biology · 2012 · 10.1016/j.ydbio.2012.04.020

• Thymine DNA Glycosylase Is Essential for Active DNA Demethylation by Linked Deamination-Base Excision Repair

  Cell · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2011.06.020

• Extracellular matrix and heart development

  Birth Defects Research Part A Clinical and Molecular Teratology · 2011 · 10.1002/bdra.20810

• Reduced versican cleavage due to Adamts9 haploinsufficiency is associated with cardiac and aortic anomalies

  Matrix Biology · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matbio.2010.01.005

• Origin and fate of cardiac mesenchyme

  Developmental Dynamics · 2008 · 10.1002/dvdy.21725

• BMP and FGF regulate the differentiation of multipotential pericardial mesoderm into the myocardial or epicardial lineage

  Developmental Biology · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ydbio.2006.03.033

• The epicardium and epicardially derived cells (EPDCs) as cardiac stem cells

  The Anatomical Record Part A Discoveries in Molecular Cellular and Evolutionary Biology · 2003 · 10.1002/ar.a.10129

• Developmental anatomy of the heart: a tale of mice and man

  Physiological Genomics · 2003 · 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00033.2003

• Hemodynamics Is a Key Epigenetic Factor in Development of the Cardiac Conduction System

  Circulation Research · 2003 · 10.1161/01.res.0000079488.91342.b7

• Origin of coronary endothelial cells from epicardial mesothelium in avian embryos

  The International Journal of Developmental Biology · 2002 · 10.1387/ijdb.12533024

• Experimental Studies on the Spatiotemporal Expression of WT1 and RALDH2 in the Embryonic Avian Heart: A Model for the Regulation of Myocardial and Valvuloseptal Development by Epicardially Derived Cells (EPDCs)

  Developmental Biology · 2002 · 10.1006/dbio.2002.0706

• Migration of cardiac neural crest cells in Splotch embryos

  Development · 2000 · 10.1242/dev.127.9.1869

• Myocardialization of the Cardiac Outflow Tract

  Developmental Biology · 1999 · 10.1006/dbio.1999.9366

• Replacement by Homologous Recombination of the minK Gene With lacZ Reveals Restriction of minK Expression to the Mouse Cardiac Conduction System

  Circulation Research · 1999 · 10.1161/01.res.84.2.146

• Alteration in Connexin 43 Gap Junction Gene Dosage Impairs Conotruncal Heart Development

  Developmental Biology · 1998 · 10.1006/dbio.1998.8891

• Heart and neural tube defects in transgenic mice overexpressing the Cx43 gap junction gene

  Development · 1997 · 10.1242/dev.124.7.1281

• The Development of the Atrioventricular Junction in the Human Heart

  Circulation Research · 1996 · 10.1161/01.res.78.1.110

• Formation of the Tricuspid Valve in the Human Heart

  Circulation · 1995 · https://doi.org/10.1161/01.cir.91.1.111

• New findings concerning ventricular septation in the human heart. Implications for maldevelopment.

  Circulation · 1992 · https://doi.org/10.1161/01.cir.86.4.1194

• Spatial distribution of “tissue‐specific” antigens in the developing human heart and skeletal muscle III. An immunohistochemical analysis of the distribution of the neural tissue antigen G1N2 in the embryonic heart; implications for the development of the atrioventricular conduction system

  The Anatomical Record · 1992 · 10.1002/ar.1092320111

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