Liver macrophages, named Kupffer cells, are responsible for the capture of circulating nanoparticles. We describe here a method, of high cell purity and yield, for Kupffer cell isolation. The modified LDH assay is used here to measure the toxicity induced by carbon nanotubes in Kupffer cells.
Bourgognon, M., Klippstein, R., Al-Jamal, K. T. Kupffer Cell Isolation for Nanoparticle Toxicity Testing. J. Vis. Exp. (102), e52989, doi:10.3791/52989 (2015).