The vertebrate heart: an evolutionary perspective

A new hypothesis of dinosaur relationships and early dinosaur evolution

(2017) Matthew G. Baron et al.   NATURE

Sponge spicules from the lower Cambrian in the Yanjiahe Formation, South China: The earliest biomineralizing sponge record

(2017) Shan Chang et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Darwinian evolution and cardiovascular remodeling

(2016) Bernard Swynghedauw   HEART FAILURE REVIEWS

Morphological analysis of the hagfish heart. II. The venous pole and the pericardium

(2016) José M. Icardo et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

Heart rate reduction and longevity in mice

(2015) Sabine Gent et al.   BASIC RESEARCH IN CARDIOLOGY

The Helical Ventricular Myocardial Band during Standard Echocardiography: A Structure-Function Relationship

(2015) Gerald Buckberg   ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY-A JOURNAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR ULTRASOUND AND ALLIED TECHNIQUES

A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms

(2015) Michael A. Ruggiero et al.   PLoS One

Exercise, Heart Rate Variability, and Longevity

(2014) Paul Poirier   CIRCULATION

Assessment of the Helical Ventricular Myocardial Band Using Standard Echocardiography

(2014) Yasunobu Hayabuchi et al.   ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY-A JOURNAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR ULTRASOUND AND ALLIED TECHNIQUES

Is our heart a well-designed pump? The heart along animal evolution

(2014) D. A. Bettex et al.   EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL

Ventricular structure–function relations in health and disease: Part I. The normal heart

(2014) Gerald D. Buckberg et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CARDIO-THORACIC SURGERY

Optimal lamellar arrangement in fish gills

(2014) K. Park et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mechanobiology in cardiac physiology and diseases

(2013) Ken Takahashi et al.   JOURNAL OF CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR MEDICINE

Evolution and development of the building plan of the vertebrate heart

(2012) Bjarke Jensen et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH

Cardiomyocytes from late embryos and neonates do optimal work and striate best on substrates with tissue-level elasticity: metrics and mathematics

(2012) Stephanie F. Majkut et al.   Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology

Craniofacial development of hagfishes and the evolution of vertebrates

(2012) Yasuhiro Oisi et al.   NATURE

Substrate Stiffness Increases Twitch Power of Neonatal Cardiomyocytes in Correlation with Changes in Myofibril Structure and Intracellular Calcium

(2011) Anthony G. Rodriguez et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Cyclic Mechanical Stretch Induces Cardiomyocyte Orientation and Polarization of the Gap Junction Protein Connexin43

(2010) Aida Salameh et al.   CIRCULATION RESEARCH

Stiffness of the substrate influences the phenotype of embryonic chicken cardiac myocytes

(2010) Piyush Bajaj et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL MATERIALS RESEARCH PART A

Turning crocodilian hearts into bird hearts: growth rates are similar for alligators with and without right-to-left cardiac shunt

(2010) J. Eme et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

The Effects of Hemodynamic Force on Embryonic Development

(2010) JAMES C. CULVER et al.   MICROCIRCULATION

Blood gases and cardiovascular shunt in the South American lungfish (Lepidosiren paradoxa) during normoxia and hyperoxia

(2010) Mirian Bassi et al.   RESPIRATORY PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROBIOLOGY

Reptilian heart development and the molecular basis of cardiac chamber evolution

(2009) Kazuko Koshiba-Takeuchi et al.   NATURE

Heart rate, lifespan, and mortality risk

(2008) Gus Q. Zhang et al.   AGEING RESEARCH REVIEWS

Evidence for the existence of a functional helical myocardial band

(2008) Abbas Nasiraei-Moghaddam et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-HEART AND CIRCULATORY PHYSIOLOGY

Cardiac Mechanics Revisited

(2008) Gerald Buckberg et al.   CIRCULATION

Perfusion-decellularized matrix: using nature's platform to engineer a bioartificial heart

(2008) Harald C Ott et al.   NATURE MEDICINE