Figure 2From: Primary culture of avian embryonic heart forming region cells to study the regulation of vertebrate early heart morphogenesis by vitamin AExpression of heart development marker genes in chicken heart forming cell culture. Primary heart forming region (HFR) cells from 3–5 ss chicken embryos were cultured in DMEM and Endo-Grow medium and analyzed for VEGF-A, GATA4 and Nkx2.5 mRNA after 3 d in culture. 30 cycles of PCR amplification were run with cDNA isolated from 150,000 HFR cells. β-actin was used as a reference.Back to article page