Here we present a protocol for live-imaging wound repair and the associated inflammatory response at high spatio-temporal resolution in vivo. This method utilizes the pupal stage of Drosophila development to enable long-term imaging and tracking of specific cell populations over time and is compatible with efficient RNAi-mediated gene inactivation.
Weavers, H., Franz, A., Wood, W., Martin, P. Long-term In Vivo Tracking of Inflammatory Cell Dynamics Within Drosophila Pupae. J. Vis. Exp. (136), e57871, doi:10.3791/57871 (2018).