PUBLICATION
Brain-localized and Intravenous Microinjections in the Larval Zebrafish to Assess Innate Immune Response
- Authors
- Rojas, A.M., Shiau, C.E.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-210424-4
- Date
- 2021
- Source
- Bio-protocol 11: e3978 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Shiau, Celia
- Keywords
- Brain, Circulation, Immunology, Infection, Inflammation, Macrophage, Microinjection, Zebrafish
- MeSH Terms
- none
- PubMed
- 33889672 Full text @ Bio Protoc
Citation
Rojas, A.M., Shiau, C.E. (2021) Brain-localized and Intravenous Microinjections in the Larval Zebrafish to Assess Innate Immune Response. Bio-protocol. 11:e3978.
Abstract
Creating a robust and controlled infection model is imperative for studying the innate immune response. Leveraging the particular strengths of the zebrafish model system, such as optical transparency, ex utero development, and large clutch size, allows for the development of methods that yield consistent and reproducible results. We created a robust model for activation of innate immunity by microinjecting bacterial particles or live bacteria into larval zebrafish, unlike previous studies which largely restricted such manipulations to embryonic stages of zebrafish. The ability to introduce stimuli locally or systemically at larval stages provides significant advantages to examine host response in more mature tissues as well as the possibility to interrogate adaptive immunity at older larval stages. This protocol describes two distinct modes of microinjection to introduce lipopolysaccharide (LPS) or bacteria into the living larval zebrafish: one localized to the brain, and another into the bloodstream via the caudal vein plexus. Graphic abstract:Schematic shows the two distinct modes of larval zebrafish microinjection, either in the brain parenchyma or in the blood stream intravenously. Reagents introduced into the zebrafish to assess immune response are depicted in the "injection components" as described in the protocol.
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