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JOVE-JOURNAL OF VISUALIZED EXPERIMENTS
Volume -, Issue 138, Pages -Publisher
JOURNAL OF VISUALIZED EXPERIMENTS
DOI: 10.3791/57619
Keywords
Developmental Biology; Issue 138; Culture; developmental biology; tissue; embryo; microscopy; manipulations; development
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- MSVU
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) via an Undergraduate Student Research Award
- NSERC Discovery Grant
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The embryonic chicken is commonly used as a reliable model organism for vertebrate development. Its accessibility and short incubation period makes it ideal for experimentation. Currently, the study of these developmental pathways in the chicken embryo is conducted by applying inhibitors and drugs at localized sites and at low concentrations using a variety of methods. In vitro tissue culturing is a technique that enables the study of tissues separated from the host organism, while simultaneously bypassing many of the physical limitations present when working with whole embryos, such as the susceptibility of embryos to high doses of potentially lethal chemicals. Here, we present an organotypic culturing protocol for culturing the embryonic chicken half head in vitro, which presents new opportunities for the examination of developmental processes beyond the currently established methods.
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