Live Imaging of Mouse Secondary Palate FusionSeungil Kim 1, Jan Prochazka 2, Jeffrey O. Bush 1
1Department of Cell and Tissue Biology, Program in Craniofacial Biology and Institute for Human Genetics, University of California San Francisco, 2Laboratory of Transgenic Models Diseases, Czech Centre for Phenogenomics, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Here, we present a protocol for live imaging of mouse secondary palate fusion using confocal microscopy. This protocol can be used in combination with a variety of fluorescent reporter mouse lines, and with pathway inhibitors for mechanistic insight. This protocol can be adapted for live imaging in other developmental systems.