University of Jaén, Jaén

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Developmental Biology

Live Imaging of Early Cardiac Progenitors in the Mouse Embryo

Miquel Sendra¹, Jorge Mañes¹, Jorge N. Domínguez^2,3, Miguel Torres¹

¹Cardiovascular Regeneration Program, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), ²Cardiovascular Development Group, Department of Experimental Biology, University of Jaén, Jaén, ³Fundación Medina, Granada

We present a detailed protocol for mouse embryo culture and imaging that enables 3D + time imaging of cardiac progenitor cells. This video-toolkit addresses the key skills required for successful live imaging otherwise hard to acquire from text-only publications.