Studies of palate development are motivated by the incidence of cleft palate, a birth defect that imposes a tremendous health burden and can leave lasting disfigurement. We demonstrate here a technique to culture palatal shelves that can be used to study different signaling pathways involved in palatal development and fusion.
Ibrahim, I., Serrano, M. J., Svoboda, K. K. Method of Studying Palatal Fusion using Static Organ Culture. J. Vis. Exp. (103), e53063, doi:10.3791/53063 (2015).