Audio Qbank – Q28 – A neonate with congenital heart disease

 

Despite appropriate measures, a neonate passes away from a combined ventricular septal defect and truncus arteriosus. Which of the following cell populations were most likely absent during early fetal cardiac development?

  Ectodermal neural crest
  Extra-embryonic mesoderm
  Intra-embryonic mesoderm
  Mantle layer neuroblasts

 

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