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Determining Immune System Suppression versus CNS Protection for Pharmacological Interventions in Autoimmune Demyelination
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2016
This protocol describes how to determine whether pharmacological treatments for experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis show CNS protection as a consequence of suppressing immune cell infiltration or are neuroprotective during the onslaught of immune cell infiltration.
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Dissection of Larval CNS in Drosophila Melanogaster
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2006
In this article we demonstrate how to dissect the central nervous system from third instar Drosophila larvae.
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Isolation of Functional Cardiac Immune Cells
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2011
This method for isolating functional immune cells from the heart provides an alternative to the conventional methods of collagenase digestion, which causes unwanted immune cell activation, resulting in a decreased responsiveness of these cells. Our method of isolation yields functional cardiac immune cells by avoiding problems associated with enzymatic digestion.
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Studying Organelle Dynamics in B Cells During Immune Synapse Formation
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2019
Herein we describe two approaches to characterize cell polarization events in B lymphocytes during the formation of an IS. The first, involves quantification of organelle recruitment and cytoskeleton rearrangements at the synaptic membrane. The second is a biochemical approach, to characterize changes in composition of the centrosome, which undergoes polarization to the immune synapse.
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Assessment of Vascular Regeneration in the CNS Using the Mouse Retina
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2014
The rodent retina has long been recognized as an accessible window to the brain. In this technical paper we provide a protocol that employs the mouse model of oxygen-induced retinopathy to study the mechanisms that lead to failure of vascular regeneration within the central nervous system after ischemic injury. The described system can also be harnessed to explore strategies to promote regrowth of functional blood vessels within the retina and CNS.
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Microglia continuously survey neural tissue and can respond when they detect pathogens or injury. Activation brings several coordinated functions into play, including phagocytosis, cytokine signaling, and antigen presentation. Together, these activities allow microglia to participate in local defense and communicate changes within the central nervous system rather than acting only as passive resident cells.
Infection or disruption of the blood-brain barrier can permit circulating leukocytes to cross into the brain or spinal cord. Once recruited, these cells join the response already coordinated by resident microglia. This distinction helps explain how local surveillance and newly arrived immune activity become integrated during conditions that challenge central nervous system tissue.
Inflammation protects neural tissue by coordinating responses to pathogens and injury, but it can also damage the tissue it is meant to defend. The same immune signaling and cellular activities that support protection may therefore become harmful when inflammation is not appropriately regulated. This balance is central to understanding infection and inflammatory disease in the nervous system.
Resident microglia are positioned within neural tissue and continuously survey their surroundings before a challenge occurs. Recruited leukocytes originate in the circulation and can enter when infection or blood-brain barrier disruption allows access. Comparing these populations clarifies how an established local response differs from the additional immune activity brought into the central nervous system.
A useful investigation can follow whether microglia recognize a pathogen or injury, activate phagocytosis, release cytokine signals, and present antigens. It can also assess whether circulating leukocytes cross the blood-brain barrier and join the response. Examining these linked events shows how immunity is coordinated within neural tissue and how inflammation develops.
These cells provide a framework for investigating neuroinfections, autoimmune disorders, neurodegeneration, and targeted therapy development. Their study can reveal how protective immune functions are organized in the brain and spinal cord, how inflammation may contribute to disease, and which cellular responses could be relevant when designing more focused therapeutic strategies.