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On the structure and mechanics in vivo of the ostial cells and the aortic valve of the Drosophila melanogaster larva heart by analyzing high resolution microscopic images

Drosophila melanogaster is one of the most useful invertebrate models in the research of both normal and pathologic physiology of the human heart. The larvae have a dorsal tubular vessel, which has three pairs of ostiolar valves and one intracardiac …