{"id":3,"date":"2018-07-17T17:07:34","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T17:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/chick\/homepage\/"},"modified":"2018-08-08T00:10:31","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T00:10:31","slug":"homepage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/chick\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"

The heart is one of the most important organs in the body\u2014it is responsible for pumping blood through our body, making sure the rest of our organs have plenty of oxygen and nutrients to function properly. If the heart doesn\u2019t work properly, it can lead to life-threatening diseases. Cardiovascular disease is one of the leading causes of death in the world, and is an umbrella term describing coronary artery disease, congenital heart defects, arrhythmias, heart attack, and congestive heart failure.<\/p>\n

Since heart disease has such a high incidence, it is important to focus on research that can help us understand how to treat or prevent these conditions. Model organisms help delve into the mechanisms, development, and genetics behind cardiovascular disease. There are many model organisms available for research, and the\u00a0chick<\/strong>\u00a0has been one of the choice models to study development for many years, including the developing heart and congenital heart defects.<\/p>\n

Why use chick as a model\u00a0organism for development?<\/span><\/h3>\n
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  • The chick develops outside the mother in an egg and is semi-transparent, making it easy to access, observe, surgically manipulate, and image.<\/li>\n
  • Early chick embryo morphology is similar to human development<\/li>\n
  • The human and chick genomes have 60% homology<\/li>\n
  • Experiments can be performed\u00a0in ovo\u00a0<\/em>or\u00a0ex ovo<\/em><\/li>\n
  • Chicks are inexpensive to maintain<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The heart is one of the most important organs in the body\u2014it is responsible for pumping blood through our body, making sure the rest of our organs have plenty of oxygen and nutrients to function properly. If the heart doesn\u2019t work properly, it can lead to life-threatening diseases. Cardiovascular disease is one of the leading…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7592,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/chick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/chick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/chick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/chick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7592"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/chick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/chick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/chick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3\/revisions\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/chick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/chick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}