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. 2023 Sep 9;14:5567. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-41279-6

Fig. 6. Epithelial-mesenchymal plasticity during EpiMT.

Fig. 6

a Force-directed layouts and (b) a heatmap of 4633 epicardial cells displaying average epicardial and mesenchymal gene profiles. Overlap in gene profile expression suggests emergence of EMP during EpiMT. Immunostaining of Hic1nLacZ/+ AV canals for SOX9, ERG, and TNNT2 at (c) E12.5 (n = 9) and (d) E14.5 (n = 6) shows co-expression of mesenchymal SOX9 and AV EPDC Hic1nLacZ within AV sulcus, suggesting transition to mesenchyme (arrowheads). Scale bars: 100 µm, 25 µm in ROIs. AV atrioventricular, AVs AV sulcus, epi epicardium, mes mesenchyme. See also Supplementary Fig. 6 and Supplementary Data 2 and 4.