Abstract
As we have learned during recent years, neutrophils are not just simple foot soldiers of the innate immune system with a restricted set of pro-inflammatory functions, and instead, they perform sophisticated functions (some of them only recently discovered) both in innate and adaptive immune responses. Neutrophil behavior and functioning should best be studied in situ, at locations where they are executed in a living organism, especially considering that neutrophils are mobile cells, performing their functions in distal body sites and various organs. For this herein we describe an approach to detect neutrophil presence/behavior in various organs (skin, muscle, liver) of alive mice, that is, intravital imaging/microscopy. We describe all surgeries required prior to imaging and share our methods of detection of neutrophils and neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs).
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This work was supported by National Science Center (NCN, Poland) grant K/PBO/000669 from National Science Center, Poland (NCN) to EK.
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Cichon, I., Santocki, M., Ortmann, W., Kolaczkowska, E. (2020). Imaging of Neutrophils and Neutrophil Extracellular Traps (NETs) with Intravital (In Vivo) Microscopy. In: Quinn, M., DeLeo, F. (eds) Neutrophil. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2087. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-0154-9_26
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