Migration of monocytes toward RPS or APS was performed with a modified Boyden chamber as described previously56 (link). In short, isolated monocytes were loaded onto the upper chamber. Control medium, resting (RPS), activated (APS), or MCP-1 was loaded in the lower chamber. After incubation for 4 h at 37 °C, the membrane was fixed with 100% ethanol and stained with May-Gruenwald/Giemsa. The membrane was mounted on glass slides, and five randomly selected images were taken (Nikon Eclipse Ni-U, ×20 objective). The number of migrated cells was counted for each well in several microscopic fields per condition using ImageJ software to quantify the cell count (ImageJ, National Institutes of Health, USA)57 (link).
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