Viktoria Stankova (née Halacheva)

Universitätsmedizin Göttingen · Department of Anatomy and Embryology

Figure 9: Overview of most common competing descriptions of development of the omental bursa. A-C Transversal schematic drawings illustrating classical view of the OB development as proposed by Johannes Müllers. Development of the omental bursa is an effect of the stomach rotation related to displacement of thin mesenteries. Inset in A demonstrates...

Bilaterally symmetrical primordia of visceral organs undergo asymmetrical morphogenesis leading to typical arrangement of visceral organs in the adult. Asymmetrical morphogenesis within the upper abdomen leads, among others, to the formation of the omental bursa dorsally to the rotated stomach. A widespread view of this process assumes kinking of t...

During animal gastrulation, the specification of the embryonic axes is accompanied by epithelio-mesenchymal transition (EMT), the first major change in cell shape after fertilization. EMT takes place in disparate topographical arrangements, such as the circular blastopore of amphibians, the straight primitive streak of birds and mammals or in inter...

Formation of the mammalian primitive streak appears to rely on cell proliferation to a minor extent only, but compensating cell movements have not yet been directly observed. This study analyses individual cell migration and proliferation simultaneously, using multiphoton and differential interference contrast time-lapse microscopy of late pregastr...