The effect of sodium butyrate on the expression of inflammatory cytokine genes in chicken macrophages was performed using RT-qPCR, as described earlier (Sun and Jobin, 2014 (
link)). Chicken macrophages (5 × 10
5 cells per well) were seeded in 6-well plate and incubated at 37°C in a humidified, 5% CO
2 incubator for 48–72 h. A mid-log SE culture was inoculated on HTC cells (∼6 Log CFU/mL; multiplicity of infection 10:1) in presence or absence of SICs of sodium butyrate followed by incubation for 4 h at 37°C in a humidified, 5% CO
2 incubator. Following incubation, total RNA was isolated from chicken macrophages using
TRIzol reagents (Thermo Fisher Scientific) as per manufacturer’s protocol. Complementary DNA (cDNA) was synthesized using
M-MLV kit (Thermo Fisher Scientific). Messenger RNA (mRNA) expression of inflammatory mediators was determined using
SYBR Green PCR Master Mix (Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., CA, United States) in a 384-well RT-qPCR System and normalized to endogenous control,
Gapdh. The primers of each gene were designed from Primer 3 software (National Center for Biotechnology Information, Bethesda, MD) and obtained from Integrated DNA Technologies, Inc. (Coralville, IA) (
Table 2).
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