Mesenteric Lymph Isolation
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Mesenteric Lymph Duct Cannulation in a Rat Model to Harvest Lymph Fluid
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2025
This video demonstrates a technique to cannulate the mesenteric lymph duct in rats. This method enables direct access to the entire volume of components present in the lymph fluid.
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Laparoscopic Technique for Serial Collection of Liver and Mesenteric Lymph Nodes in Macaques
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2017
Here, we describe a minimally invasive laparoscopic technique for serial sampling of liver and mesenteric lymph nodes (MLN) in macaques that allows for increased sampling frequency, and reduces the potential for surgical complications when compared to performing a laparotomy.
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The Mesenteric Lymph Duct Cannulated Rat Model: Application to the Assessment of Intestinal Lymphatic Drug Transport
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2015
Here we describe a technique to cannulate the mesenteric lymph duct in rats which enables quantification of lipid and drug transport via the lymphatic system following intestinal delivery. The technique can be adapted to assess mesenteric lymph concentrations and/or transport of fluid, immune cells, peptides, proteins and lipophilic molecules.
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The Isolation of Flowing Mesenteric Lymph in Mice to Quantify In Vivo Kinetics of Dietary Lipid Absorption and Chylomicron Secretion
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2022
The present protocol describes a detailed surgical protocol for isolating flowing intestinal lymph in response to intraduodenal nutrient infusions in mice. This allows for the physiological determination of total intestinal lipid absorption and chylomicron synthesis and secretion in response to various experimental nutrients.
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Larval Lymph Gland Dissection: Isolating the Drosophila Hemocyte-Producing Organ
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2023
This video describes the Drosophila lymph gland—the primary site of hematopoiesis in the fly larva—and shows an example protocol to dissect and mount the organ for immunohistochemistry and fluorescent imaging.
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The mesentery is closely associated with the intestines and contains lymphatic vessels and nodes, so recovered cells represent an immune compartment connected to the gut. This anatomical relationship makes the preparation useful for examining intestinal immune responses rather than treating the cells as a general sample of systemic immunity. It also supports studies of lymphocyte trafficking near the intestinal environment.
Mechanical dissociation separates cells from the lymphatic tissue, while filtration removes larger tissue fragments from the resulting suspension. Together, these steps produce a cell preparation suitable for examining lymphocytes and, when appropriate, maintaining them in culture. The quality of this preparation determines whether researchers can evaluate cellular composition, activation, or other immune properties in a consistent sample.
The resulting preparation can be used to examine lymphocyte composition, activation, and trafficking. Composition describes which lymphocyte populations are present, whereas activation concerns their immune state, and trafficking relates to movement through immune compartments. Measuring these features helps connect cellular observations with intestinal immune responses in experimental biology and with changes associated with gastrointestinal disease.
Mesenteric lymph samples provide a gut-associated immune reference that can be considered alongside systemic immune compartments. Such comparisons can reveal whether lymphocyte composition, activation, or trafficking differs between intestinally associated tissue and broader immune sites. This approach is relevant when researchers want to distinguish localized intestinal responses from patterns that reflect systemic immunity.
The workflow begins by locating the relevant mesenteric lymph nodes and dissecting the lymphatic tissue. Researchers then mechanically dissociate the tissue to release cells and filter the suspension to obtain lymphocytes. The recovered cells can subsequently support analysis or culture, allowing the same preparation to be used for cellular characterization or further experimental study.
Mesenteric lymph preparations are useful in studies of infection, inflammation, vaccination, and gastrointestinal disease. In each setting, the isolated lymphocytes provide a way to examine immune responses associated with the intestine, including changes in cellular composition or activation. The method also contributes to comparisons between gut-associated immunity and systemic immune compartments, broadening interpretation of experimental findings.