Reconstitution of immune cell in liver and lymph node of adult- and newborn-engrafted humanized mice

BMC Immunology

Research Article

Stephen Collins¹  Mira M. Shenouda²  Evan J. Lusty²  Marianne V. Chew²  Amanda J. Lee²  Mahsa Shafai²  Crystal Dykstra²  Fatemeh Vahedi²  Ali A. Ashkar³ 

[1] Department of Medicine, McMaster University, L8N 3Z5, Hamilton, ON, Canada;Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster Immunology Research Centre, L8N 3Z5, Hamilton, ON, Canada;Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster Immunology Research Centre, L8N 3Z5, Hamilton, ON, Canada;McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, MDCL 4015, Hamilton, ON, Canada;

关键词: Humanized mice;    Liver;    Natural killer cells;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12865-016-0157-9

 received in 2016-03-04, accepted in 2016-06-08,  发布年份 2016

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundHumanized mouse models are an increasingly popular preclinical model to study the human immune response in a biological system. There are a variety of protocols to generate these mice, each differing in the strain of the recipient, source of hematopoietic stem cells, and mode of transplantation. Though there is well-documented reconstitution information regarding the spleen, blood, and bone marrow, there is little information regarding reconstitution of the lymph node and liver. In this report, we sought to compare reconstitution levels in a variety of immunological tissues, including the lymph node and liver, between mice engrafted intravenously as adults and intrahepatically in newborns.ResultsCD34+ cells were enriched from cord blood and transplanted intravenously into irradiated adult NOD-Rag1-/-IL2rγ-/- (NRG) mice or intra-hepatically into irradiated newborn NRG mice. At 9–28 weeks post-engraftment, immunological tissues were processed and analyzed for human lymphoid and myeloid subsets. Adult and newborn engrafted humanized mice were comparable in long-term reconstitution of human CD45 cells and subsequent lymphoid and myeloid subsets in the spleen, bone marrow, thymus, lymph node, and liver. Mice engrafted as newborns had a higher level of T-cells and a lower level of B-cells compared to mice engrafted as adults. We observed significant levels of human immune cell engraftment in both the lymph node and the liver, with a predominant adaptive immune population in both compartments.ConclusionsHuman immune cells repopulate liver and mesenteric lymph nodes of NRG mice and can be used to study the human immune system in the gastrointestinal tract.

【 授权许可】

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© The Author(s). 2016