Open AccessReversible small bowel obstruction in the chicken foetus
Author(s) -
Christina Oetzmann von Sochaczewski,
Katharina Wenke,
Roman Metzger,
Jerome Loveland,
Chris Westgarth-Taylor,
Dietrich Kluth
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
african journal of paediatric surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.163
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 0189-6725
pISSN - 0974-5998
DOI - 10.4103/0189-6725.150932
Subject(s) - medicine , ligature , intestinal atresia , bowel obstruction , ligation , in ovo , atresia , gastroenterology , myenteric plexus , pathology , anatomy , embryo , surgery , biology , immunohistochemistry , microbiology and biotechnology
Ligation of the embryonic gut is an established technique to induce intestinal obstruction and subsequently intestinal atresia in chicken embryos. In this study, we modified this established chicken model of prenatal intestinal obstruction to describe (1) the kinetics of morphological changes, (2) to test if removal of the ligature in ovo is possible in later embryonic development and (3) to describe morphological adaptations following removal of the ligature.