Measuring Phagocytosis in Bone Marrow-Derived Macrophages and Peritoneal Macrophages with Aging.
Measuring Phagocytosis in Bone Marrow-Derived Macrophages and Peritoneal Macrophages with Aging.
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10.1007/978-1-0716-0592-9_14
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2020
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通讯作者:
Ryan Lu;N. Sampathkumar;B. Benayoun
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作者:
Ryan Lu;N. Sampathkumar;B. Benayoun
The majority of age-related diseases share common inflammatory mechanisms, a phenomenon which has been described as “inflamm-aging,” and genetic variants in immune and inflammatory genes are significantly associated with exceptional human longevity and/or age-related diseases. Consistently, aging is associated with increased macrophage infiltration into tissues. Macrophages are a key component of the innate immune system and the inflammatory response, which accomplish key tasks such as phagocytosis, antigen presentation, and cytokine production. Phagocytosis is the process by which specialized cells that can clear harmful foreign particles, pathogens, and dead or dying cells. Upon phagocytosis, foreign particles are internalized in vesicles, forming phagosomes. Phagosomes go on to fuse with lysosomes, and the ingested particles are neutralized by lysosomal enzymes. Macrophages have two main origins: tissue-resident macrophages differentiate from specific embryonic progenitors, whereas monocyte-derived macrophages differentiate from bone-marrow progenitors. Because of their key role in inflammation and damage repair, macrophages are a key cell type in age-related inflammatory diseases. Here, we describe an efficient method to quantify the phagocytotic ability of two types of primary macrophages in aging mice: bone marrow-derived macrophages (BMDMs) and tissue-resident peritoneal macrophages.