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Evaluation of Caspase Activation to Assess Innate Immune Cell Death
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Chapters
- 00:05Introduction
- 01:04Stimulating the Cells
- 02:05Collecting the Combined Supernatant and Protein Lysate to Be Used for Caspase Western Blots
- 03:20Performing Western Blotting Using the Lysates Collected from the BMDMs or Tissue Homogenates
- 07:55Results: Monitoring Caspase Cleavage and Activation
- 09:31Conclusion
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.
