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Methods on Gastrointestinal Mucosal Inflammation and Repair

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Miguel Quiros

Miguel Quiros

University of Michigan

Dr. Miguel Quiros did his undergrad studies in microbiology at the University of Costa Rica and obtained his PhD in Molecular and Cellular Physiology at the Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Mexico City, Mexico. Currently he is a faculty member of the Department of Pathology, School of Medicine in the University of Michigan. His research focuses on the resolution phase of intestinal inflammation. Dr. Quiros is working in different projects such as (a) establishing a defined matrix to grow mini-guts with the potential to be engrafted into ulcerated tissue from IBD patients and promote epithelial recovery; (b) characterizing the kinetics of cytokine release during the resolution phase of inflammation and describe the cascade of events that lead to recovery of homeostasis; (c) studying the effect of specialized pro-resolution mediators on intestinal epithelial wound healing.

Collection Overview

The study of gastrointestinal inflammation and repair is key to elucidate the role of different cell populations and molecules during acute and chronic gut inflammatory processes. The proposed collection will function as a group of protocols that will help to disseminate cutting edge techniques in intestinal mucosal inflammation, but also as a guide to define and refine everyday techniques that need standardization. The introduction of veterinary colonoscopes to the field of intestinal mucosal immunology expanded our ability to understand the mechanisms underlying inflammation and repair in vivo. This has inspired researchers to develop innovative approaches to figure out how the responses that drive inflammation and repair occur after an insult compromises the gastrointestinal barrier. In this collection, we will have a compendium of novel techniques that will allow gastrointestinal mucosal immunologists to study the different cell populations and mediators that participate in the inflammatory and repair processes in the gastrointestinal mucosa. We will also include classical but very important techniques that will benefit from standardization in order to make intestinal mucosal research more reproducible among different laboratories. Examples of methods to be found in this collection are murine intestinal loop models to study immune cells trafficking and permeability, immune cell isolation from injured colonic lamina propria, preparation of colonic swiss rolls, and a histological scoring method to standardize murine colitis severity.

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Functional Assessment of Intestinal Permeability and Neutrophil Transepithelial Migration in Mice using a Standardized Intestinal Loop Model
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Functional Assessment of Intestinal Permeability and Neutrophil Transepithelial Migration in Mice using a Standardized Intestinal Loop Model

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2021

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