Heart

Response to: Correspondence on ‘When a patent foramen ovale becomes pathological’ by Calcaterra et al

We thank Calcaterra et al for their thoughtful comments and for providing an embryological perspective on patent foramen ovale (PFO) and platypnoea-orthodeoxia syndrome in response to our editorial.1 ...
Nature

Generation of human vascular smooth muscle subtypes provides insight into embryological origin–dependent disease susceptibility

The walls of larger vessels and capillary beds are composed of vascular SMCs and pericytes, respectively 1. Lineage tracking studies have shown that vascular SMCs in different vessels have distinct ...