Saarela Ulla, Skovorodkin Ilya
Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.
Laboratory of Developmental Biology, Biocenter Oulu, InfoTech, Oulu, Finland.
Methods Mol Biol. 2019;1926:163-167. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-9021-4_14.
Time-lapse imaging is a technique of frequent imaging and following a course of a process. Because the development of the embryonic kidney can proceed ex vivo after dissection, it is possible to study the morphogenesis by culturing the kidney in the onstage incubator of a microscope and follow the developmental process by imaging. Confocal microscopes and other three-dimensional imaging systems offer the possibility for tracking the development process in four dimensions-3D and the time.