Peripheral immune cell infiltration was analyzed as described previously [19 (
link)]. Briefly, blood and brain were collected from Sham or TBI mice at 3 days following TBI. Mice were euthanized and peripheral blood was obtained by cardiac puncture. And then mice were perfused with cold Hank’s balanced salt solution (HBSS) to collect the impacted hemisphere. The impacted hemispheres were digested with
Neural Tissue Dissociation Kit (Miltenyi) using
gentleMACS Octo Dissociator with heaters (Miltenyi). The resulting homogenate was passed through a 70 μm cell strainer, and Percoll was added to create a 30% and 70% percoll gradient with distinct separation lines. After centrifugation and removal of debris, the precipitate was resuspended. Then cells were stained at 4 ℃ in darkness for 30 min with the following fluorophore-conjugated antibodies: CD11b-APC-eFlour 780 (eBioscience, 47–0112-82, 1:200),
CD45-eFlour 450 (eBioscience, 48–0451-82, 1:50),
Ly6G(Gr1)-PE(eBioscience, 12–9669-82, 1:200),
F4/80-PE (eBioscience, 12–4801-82, 1:200),
CD11c-PerCP cy5.5(eBioscience, 45-0114-82, 1:100)
Ly-6G-FITC (Thermo Fisher Scientific, 11-9668-82, 1:200),
CD3-APC (eBioscience, 17–0032-82, 1:200),
CD19-FITC (BD Bioscience, 561740, 1:200). Flow cytometry was performed using the Beckman
CytoFlex, and the obtained data were analyzed using FlowJo software.
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