heart tube
An epithelial tube that will give rise to the mature heart. [ http://amigo.geneontology.org/amigo/term/GO:0003143 GOC:mtg_heart ]
Synonyms: embryonic heart tube, endocardial tube, endocardial heart tube
Term info
- EMAPA:32685
- EFO:0003526
- TAO:0000360
- AAO:0010411
- XAO:0000337
- NCIT:C34161
- ZFA:0000360
efo_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core
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.
uberon
UBERON:0004141
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/uberon.owl, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/cl.owl
Term relations
- meso-epithelium
- embryonic tissue
- epithelial tube
- develops from some primitive heart tube
- immediate transformation of some primitive heart tube