This video demonstrates in vivo imaging to study the neutrophil recruitment dynamics at an infection site in an immunocompromised, transgenic mouse with GFP-expressing neutrophils. It involves injecting luminescent bacteria to cause an infection. This leads to neutrophil recruitment to the infection site, whose tracking is done by imaging.
Protocol
All procedures involving animal models have been reviewed by the local institutional animal care committee and the JoVE veterinary review board. 1. Mouse Source and Housing Derive LysM-eGFP mice on a C57BL/6J genetic background. Derive LysM-EGFP×MyD88-/- mice by crossing LysM-EGFP mice with MyD88-/- mice on a C57BL/6J background. House mice in a vivarium. For these studies, animals were housed at the University of Cali…
Representative Results
Figure 1: Correlation between OD600 and CFU counts for ALC2906. 3-4 ALC2906 SH1000 colonies were picked from an agar plate and transferred into TSB with 10 µg/mL chloramphenicol for overnight culture. The next day, the suspension was split 1:50 into TSB with 10 µg/mL chloramphenicol and cultured. Optical density at 600 nm (OD600) was measured in regular intervals after 2 hours using a sp…
Monitoring Neutrophil Recruitment Dynamics and Bacterial Burden at the Infection Site in a Murine Model. J. Vis. Exp. (Pending Publication), e21603, doi: (2023).