Atrial and atrioventricular septal defects in
Gli1CreERT2 conditional Smo mutants.
(A-D) E14.5 cardiac anatomy by cross-section histology in control
Smofl/fl (A,C) and mutant
SmoGli1-CreERT2 (B,D) embryos administered with TM at E7.5
and E8.5. Atrial septal (D, arrowhead) and atrioventricular canal (D,
asterisk) defects are present in SmoGli1-CreERT2 but not
Smofl/fl embryos. C and D correspond to boxes in A and B,
respectively. (E,F) SmoGli1-CreERT2 embryos
(F) at E10.5 show hypoplastic dorsal mesenchymal protrusions (DMP, arrow) as
compared with wild-type Smofl/fl littermates (E). AS,
atrial septum.