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Malassezia-Induced Skin Inflammation and Fungal Burden Analysis in a Murine Model
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2025
This video demonstrates Malassezia-induced skin infection in mice. Malassezia oil suspension is applied over the wounded ear, triggering inflammation and swelling of the ear tissue. Later, the ears are dissected, homogenized, and spread on an agar plate for growth. The number of colonies indicates the fungal burden resulting from skin inflammation.
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Global Climate Change
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Throughout its ~4.5 billion year history, the Earth has experienced periods of warming and cooling. However, the current drastic increase in global temperatures is well outside of the Earth’s cyclic norms, and evidence for human-caused global climate change is compelling. Paleoclimatology, the study of ancient climate conditions, provides ample evidence for human-caused global climate change by comparing recent conditions with those in the past. Past Periods of Warming and Cooling In the last...
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Assessing Bacterial Burden in the Mouse Spleen for Infection Studies
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2026
Source: Madenspacher, J. H. and Fessler, M. B. A Non-invasive and Technically Non-intensive Method for Induction and Phenotyping of Experimental Bacterial Pneumonia in Mice. J. Vis. Exp. (2016)This video demonstrates the process of quantifying bacterial load in the spleen of an infected mouse to assess the severity of infection. The homogenized spleen is serially diluted and plated to determine total bacterial burden. The resulting data provide insights into host-pathogen interactions within...
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Measurement of the In Vivo Burden of Bacteria Expressing Luciferase in an Insect Larva
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2025
This video showcases the in vivo bacterial burden measurement using Bacillus Calmette-Guérin, BCG, lux-infected insect larvae. The process involves larval homogenization, treatment with a luciferase substrate, and bioluminescence measurement to determine relative light units that correlate with bacterial burden.
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Monitoring Neutrophil Recruitment Dynamics and Bacterial Burden at the Infection Site in a Murine Model
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2025
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.
FAQs
Cytokines and other immune mediators act as communication signals released by activated cells. Their effects can extend beyond the initiating tissue by influencing blood vessels, organs, and broader systemic physiology. The extent and intensity of this coordinated signaling help explain why inflammatory activity at one site may be associated with findings or consequences elsewhere in the body.
A whole-body assessment considers whether inflammatory activity has broader effects beyond a single tissue or disease location. This perspective can reveal systemic involvement that a site-specific examination might not capture. In medicine, it supports comparisons of overall disease burden and helps researchers examine links between inflammation, multisystem complications, and long-term health outcomes.
The time course helps place inflammatory activity in an acute or chronic disease context. Assessing burden in this way can support characterization of whether inflammation is associated with a current illness, persistent disease activity, or progression over time. That distinction is relevant when comparing patient risk and interpreting changes during clinical monitoring or research.
Clinical findings and inflammatory biomarkers provide complementary evidence for estimating overall inflammatory activity. Clinical findings show how inflammation may be expressed in the patient, while biomarkers provide measurable indicators that can support comparison and monitoring. Used together, these sources can help characterize disease, assess risk, and evaluate whether inflammatory activity changes with treatment.
Assessment of global inflammatory burden can be used to monitor disease progression and evaluate responses to treatment. A changing burden may provide information about whether the patient's overall inflammatory state is improving, persisting, or worsening, although interpretation remains connected to the broader clinical context. This makes the concept useful in both patient care and treatment research.
The whole-body perspective helps researchers investigate how persistent inflammatory activity may contribute to complications involving multiple systems. It also supports studies that compare patient risk and examine relationships between inflammatory burden and long-term health outcomes. This research context extends beyond identifying inflammation itself by asking how coordinated immune activity may influence disease course and overall health.