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Contact-Free Co-Culture Model for the Study of Innate Immune Cell Activation During Respiratory Virus Infection
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2021
This protocol details an investigation of the early interactions between virally infected nasal epithelial cells and innate cell activation. Individual subsets of immune cells can be distinguished based on their activation in response to viral infections. They can then be further investigated to determine their effects on early antiviral responses.
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Cells of the Innate Immune Response
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2024
The innate immune response is an immediate and non-specific response against pathogens, acting swiftly to prevent the spread of infections. The primary cells involved in this response are phagocytes and natural killer (NK) cells. Phagocytes Phagocytes police the peripheral tissues by removing cellular debris and responding to the invasion of foreign substances or pathogens. Many phagocytes attack and remove microorganisms even before lymphocytes detect them. The human body has two general...
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Light Preference Assay to Study Innate and Circadian Regulated Photobehavior in Drosophila Larvae
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2013
Here we describe a light-dark preference test for Drosophila larva. This assay provides information about innate and circadian regulation of light sensing and processing photobehavior.
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Assessing the Innate Sensing of HIV-1 Infected CD4+ T Cells by Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells Using an Ex vivo Co-culture System.
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2015
Unlike cell-free HIV-1 particles, infected CD4+ T cells are effectively sensed by plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs). This manuscript describes a method where peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) or isolated pDCs are co-cultured with HIV-1 infected T cells to evaluate innate sensing by pDCs as assessed by release of type-I IFN.
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Evaluation of Caspase Activation to Assess Innate Immune Cell Death
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2023
This protocol describes a comprehensive method for assessing caspase activation (caspase-1, caspase-3, caspase-7, caspase-8, caspase-9, and caspase-11) in response to both in vitro and in vivo (in mice) models of infection, sterile insults, and cancer to determine the initiation of cell death pathways, such as pyroptosis, apoptosis, necroptosis, and PANoptosis.
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Restricted receptors focus recognition on a limited set of lipid, metabolite, or stress-associated signals rather than the broad antigen range associated with conventional T cells. These signals may be presented by nonclassical molecules or displayed by infected and damaged cells. This arrangement enables selected innate T-cell subsets to detect relevant cellular changes early in an infectious process.
The major distinction lies in the type of cue each subset can recognize. Natural killer T, mucosal-associated invariant T, and γδ T cells are associated with recognition of lipid signals, metabolites, or stress-associated signals, respectively, although the overview presents these categories as representative rather than exclusive. Together, they illustrate how innate T cells survey different aspects of infection or cellular damage.
Rapid cytokine release allows innate T cells to influence inflammation soon after they detect relevant signals, while cytotoxic mechanisms can target infected or damaged cells. These responses also affect other immune cells, so activation has effects beyond the responding T cell itself. The combined outcome links early detection with broader coordination of host defense and inflammatory responses.
Their early activity can connect recognition of infected or stressed cells with immediate immune coordination. By releasing cytokines and using cytotoxic mechanisms, innate T cells help shape the inflammatory environment and support other immune cells before slower, more specialized responses become fully established. This makes them relevant to understanding how host defense begins and develops during infection.
Investigating these cells can clarify how rapid immune activation influences inflammation, including how responses that support host defense may also contribute to harmful immune effects. Because innate T cells release cytokines and act on infected or damaged cells, their activity provides a way to examine connections between cellular recognition, inflammatory regulation, and disease-associated immune outcomes.
Their restricted recognition patterns and rapid effector responses make innate T cells useful for examining how immune protection can be initiated or directed. In vaccine research, they may help clarify early immune activation and response shaping. In immunotherapy research, their signaling and cytotoxic functions provide a basis for considering targeted strategies that influence selected immune responses.