Abstract
T-lymphocytes are the principle coordinators of the immune defense system and play a major role in the protection of our body against infections, intruders of non-self, and malignancies. To mount an immune response, T-cells need to be effectively employed to tissue sites of infection or inflammation and establish contacts with antigen-presenting cells (APCs) or malignant cells. Understanding how T-cells navigate toward their recruitment sites would offer new therapeutic opportunities. Advancement in the hardware and software upgrades of microscopy technology has created several efficient and easy-to-operate live cell imaging platforms. In this protocol, we present a generalized and simple-to-follow protocol for live cell imaging of migrating T-cells, which can also be adopted to visualize real-time tracking of intracellular signaling events.
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This work was supported by the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University Singapore Start-Up Grant to N.K.V. and the Singapore Ministry of Education (MOE) under its Singapore MOE Academic Research Fund (AcRF) Tier 2 Grant (MOE2017-T2-2-004). The authors would like to thank Jaron Liu (GE Healthcare) and Steve Chai (Bitplane AG) for their technical advice on the functionality of the equipment and software.
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Ong, S.T., Verma, N.K. (2019). Live Cell Imaging and Analysis to Capture T-Cell Motility in Real-Time. In: Verma, N. (eds) T-Cell Motility. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1930. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-9036-8_5
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