Huaning Zhao

The paper identifies a buffering mechanism in aortic arch artery development that compensates for reduced endothelial cell numbers, preventing congenital heart disease.

This study investigates SMAD4's role in cardiac neural crest cell survival, differentiation into vascular smooth muscle cells, and contribution to pharyngeal arch development using mouse models.

This study investigates how cell-ECM interactions, specifically through integrin 5β1 and fibronectin, regulate the morphogenesis of the aortic arch arteries at multiple developmental stages.

The paper shows pericytes communicate with endothelial cells during vasculogenesis via Cx43 gap junctions, using mouse embryonic stem cells and live imaging.