Elhage Amal, Sligar Chloe, Watson Debbie, Sluyter Ronald
Molecular Horizons and School of Science, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia.
Methods Mol Biol. 2025;2907:183-206. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-4430-0_9.
Humanized mouse models of graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), involving the injection of human immune cells into immunodeficient mice, are firmly established and offer avenues for exploring pathways implicated in GVHD development and for testing therapeutics to prevent or treat this disease. NOD-scid-IL-2Rγ (NSG) mice are a strain of immunodeficient mice commonly used to study GVHD. This chapter details methods relating to this model including human immune cell isolation, the injection of these human immune cells into nonirradiated NSG mice, monitoring the mice for signs of clinical GVHD (including weight loss), immunolabeling with anti-human and anti-mouse monoclonal antibodies of leukocytes isolated from the spleens, livers, and lungs of humanized mice, evaluating human cell engraftment and human and mouse immune cell subsets via flow cytometry and measuring serum cytokine concentrations using a multiplexed flow cytometric assay.
移植物抗宿主病(GVHD)的人源化小鼠模型,即将人类免疫细胞注射到免疫缺陷小鼠体内,已得到稳固确立,并为探索GVHD发病机制及测试预防或治疗该疾病的疗法提供了途径。NOD-scid-IL-2Rγ(NSG)小鼠是一种常用于研究GVHD的免疫缺陷小鼠品系。本章详细介绍了与该模型相关的方法,包括人类免疫细胞分离、将这些人类免疫细胞注射到未受照射的NSG小鼠体内、监测小鼠的临床GVHD体征(包括体重减轻)、用人源化小鼠脾脏、肝脏和肺中分离的白细胞进行抗人及抗小鼠单克隆抗体免疫标记、通过流式细胞术评估人类细胞植入以及人类和小鼠免疫细胞亚群,以及使用多重流式细胞术测定血清细胞因子浓度。
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