Abstract
The intestinal macrophage pool represents the largest population of macrophages present within the body. Nevertheless, flow cytometry analysis of intestinal macrophages remains challenging due to historical lack of consensus on surface markers, variations in sample preparation, and a certain capriciousness of the isolation procedure itself. Furthermore, recent studies have uncovered a hitherto unknown heterogeneity of intestinal macrophages, accompanied by a vast increase of subset-identifying surface markers. Here, the isolation procedure for intestinal tissue for flow cytometry analysis is laid out, with particular attention toward the procedures for isolated intestinal layers, and a trouble-shooting section with strategies to avoid common pitfalls and mistakes.
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If performing dissection of muscularis externa and lamina propria
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Only for digestion of whole tissue. If digesting lamina propria alone (separated from muscularis externa), these enzymes may be omitted.
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Viola, M.F., Boeckxstaens, G. (2024). Isolation and Flow Cytometry Analysis of Intestinal Macrophages. In: Mass, E. (eds) Tissue-Resident Macrophages. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2713. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-3437-0_13
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