Abstract
The development of new advances in understanding the role of neutrophils in inflammation requires effective procedures for isolating and purifying neutrophils. Methods for isolating human neutrophils are fairly standard, and some are covered in other chapters of this volume and previous editions. However, procedures for isolating neutrophils from nonhuman species used to model human diseases vary from those used in isolating human neutrophils and are not as well developed. Since neutrophils are highly reactive and sensitive to small perturbations, the methods of isolation are important to avoid isolation technique-induced alterations in cell function. We present methods here for reproducibly isolating highly purified neutrophils from large animal models (bovine, equine, ovine), small animal models (murine and rabbit), and nonhuman primates (cynomolgus macaques) and describe optimized details for obtaining the highest cell purity, yield, and viability.
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This work was supported in part by National Institutes of Health IDeA Program COBRE Grant GM110732; the Intramural Research Program of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health; USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture Hatch project 1009546; and the Montana State University Agricultural Experiment Station.
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Siemsen, D.W. et al. (2020). Isolation of Neutrophils from Nonhuman Species. 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_4
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