小鼠中皮肤移植和淋巴器官分析

Julie Ruer-Laventie; Rajesh Jayachandran; Mathias  Schmaler; Simona W. Rossi; Jean Pieters

doi:10.21769/BioProtoc.3531

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Skin Transplantation and Lymphoid Organ Analysis in Mice

小鼠中皮肤移植和淋巴器官分析

JR Julie Ruer-Laventie

RJ Rajesh Jayachandran

MS Mathias Schmaler

SR Simona W. Rossi email

JP Jean Pieters email

发布: 2020年02月20日第10卷第4期 DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.3531 浏览次数: 4934

评审: Meenal SinhaLokesh KalekarAnita Umesh

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Abstract

Skin transplantation in mice is an important procedure to evaluate immune responses generated against heterologous grafts, especially given its highly immunogenic nature. In fact, skin is one of the most challenging organs in terms of allograft retention. In this protocol, we provide a detailed procedure for skin grafting using the tail skin as donor organ that is grafted on the dorsal site of thoracic cage in a recipient mouse. We also provide protocols for the systematic analysis of lymphoid organ analysis in transplanted mice. Together these protocols may be valuable for evaluation of parameters that affect skin grafting, including genetic factors, immune cell activation as well as the analysis of compounds that may be useful in allowing graft tolerance.

Keywords: Skin transplantation (皮肤移植)

Mouse (小鼠)

Lymphoid organs (淋巴器官)

Immune cell analysis (免疫细胞分析)

Protocol (方法)

Organ rejection (器官排斥)

Background

Transplantation of organs remains the only life-saving procedure for many end-stage organ failures. However, the success of organ transplantation is severely limited by first, the availability of a suitable donor with a matched Human Leucocyte Antigen (also known as HLA typing/organ matching), and second, the fact that even in cases of matched transplants, recipients have to be subjected to immunosuppressive therapy where multiple drugs are administered life-long, resulting in severe side effects (Lopez et al., 2006; Green, 2013; Rodriguez-Peralvarez et al., 2014). Therefore, a better understanding of the factors that allow graft acceptance, as well as the availability of sensitive protocols to assay immune cell activation are important. We have employed a mouse model for skin transplantation, where a biopsy from a tail skin is grafted onto the dorsum of a recipient mouse (Schmaler et al., 2014; Jayachandran et al., 2019). Such a procedure not only allows for relative ease of obtaining tail skin graft from a single donor for performing transplantation onto multiple recipients, but also aids in rapid assessment of the graft health status due to the presence of the characteristic hyperpigmented tail stripe (from melanin, a characteristic feature of healthy tail skin), that rapidly fades upon rejection, thereby allowing a relatively straightforward evaluation of its tolerance and/or rejection following transplantation.

Materials and Reagents

For the skin transplantation protocol
1. Mouth mask (Lyreco, catalog number: 5965655)
2. Cotton swab (Carl Roth GmbH, catalog number: 31025060)
3. Hansaplast Finger Strips (Beierdorf AG, catalog number: 76861)
4. Histoacryl Tissue adhesive (Braun, catalog number: 1050052)
5. Leukotape classic, 2 cm x 10 m (BSN Medical SAS, Ref: 02204-00)
6. Sterile gauze, 5 x 5 cm, 8ply (MaiMed GmbH, catalog number: 21010)
7. Tissue Culture dishes 10 cm, 60.1 cm² (Huberlab, catalog number: 7.633102)
8. Warm pad (Solis AG, Type 223)
9. 1 ml syringes with 25 G needles or insulin syringes (BD, catalog number: 305501)
10. Heating pad (surgery table with a heating block included; MD supplies, catalog number: 4507-1/)
11. Cotton swabs (Schaffhauser, catalog number: P0-15117601)
12. Mice (H2-bm12) (H-2^bm12, McKenzie et al., 1979) and C57Bl/6
13. CO₂ for euthanization
14. Wet food (100 g of dry food incubated at room temperature with 200 ml of drinking water O/N, 30 ml of mix is placed on a Petri dish per cage) (KLIBA, 3436 EXF12 M/R EXTRUDAT)
15. Betadine standard solution (Mundipharma)
16. Dafalgan (UPSA, Bristol Myers Squibb SA, 1340235)
17. PBS, Phosphate-Buffered Saline, pH 7.4 (Invitrogen, catalog number: 10010015)
18. Temgesic, Buprenorphine, 0.3 mg/ml (ESSEX Chemie AG, ATC N02AE01 number)
19. Vaseline (Vifor SA)
20. Isoflurane (Attane, SKU:RXISO-250)
21. Vitamin A (Blache, catalog number: 1667290), 5 g, Bausch & Lomb for the vet ointment of the mice eyes
22. 100% Ethanol, vendor (Sigma, catalog number: 02890)
23. Foetal Calfs Serum (FCS) (PAA, catalog number: A15-101)
24. Paracetamol-containing syrup (Bristol-Myers Squibb, DAFALGAN Sirup, 30 mg/ml)
For the organ analysis
1. 1 ml syringes with 25 G needles or insulin syringes (BD, catalog number: 305501)
2. Gridded mesh (steel/nylon, Sefar AG, catalog number: 3053-0201-100-00)
3. Neubauer chamber (BRAND, catalog number: 718605)
4. Petri dishes 94 x 16 mm (Greiner, catalog number: 633102)
5. 15 ml tubes (Sarstedt, catalog number: 62.554.502)
6. 5 ml plungers (Omnifix, catalog number: 4616057V)
7. 5 ml facs tubes (Falcon, catalog number: 352008)
8. 96-well plate U bottom non-treated for culture (VWR, 351177 Falcon, 734-0955)
9. Live/Dead Marker (Invitrogen, catalog number: L10119)
10. 2% EDTA (Sigma, EDS-100g)
11. ACK buffer (155 mM NH₄Cl, 10 mM KHCO₂, 1 mM EDTA, pH 7.4) to use for RBC lysis in organs
12. Aqua dest. 10x BD FACS Lysing Solution (BD Biosciences, catalog number: 349202) (dilute with aqua dest) to use for RBC in blood
13. FACS buffer (PBS, 2% FCS, 5 mM EDTA)
14. Trypan blue stain (0.4%, Gibco, catalog number: 15250-061)
15. FACS antibodies list example of panel which can be used:
  CD3 (Clone 145-2C11, Biolegend, catalog number: 100308)
  CD4 (Clone RM4-5, Biolegend, catalog number: 100512)
  CD8 (Clone 53-6.7, Biolegend, catalog number: 100738)
  CD19 (Clone 6D5, Biolegend, catalog number: 115508)
  Gr1 (Clone RB6-8C5, Biolegend, catalog number: 108425)
  CD62L (Clone Mel-14, Biolegend, catalog number: 104412)
  CD44 (Clone A20, Biolegend, catalog number: 103030)
  CD11b (Clone M1/70, Biolegend, catalog number: 101236)
  CD80 (Clone 16-10A1, Biolegend, catalog number: 104702)
  CD86 (Clone GL-1, Biolegend, catalog number: 105010)

Equipment

Surgical instruments for the skin transplantation protocol
1. Narrow pattern forceps (FST, catalog number: 11003-12)
2. Fine iris scissor curved (FST, catalog number: 14095-11)
3. Fine iris scissor (FST, catalog number: 14094-11)
4. Mayo scissors (FST, catalog number: 14010-15)
5. Artery scissors ball tip 11.5 cm (FST, catalog number: 14080-11)
6. Tissue forceps (FST, catalog number: 11021-14)
7. Carbon Steel, Surgical Blade No.20 (Swann-Morton LTD, catalog number: 3006)
8. Surgical blade Handles (Swann-Morton LTD 20, Milian, catalog number: 132620SW)
For the skin transplantation protocol
1. Electric shaver (Moser Classic A, Barthaar, catalog number: 1040.0460)
2. Ear tweezer (FST, catalog number: 24212-01)
For the organ analysis
1. BD FACS Canto II cytometer, IC/NO: 0000031701
2. Vacuum pump (KNF Neuberger, catalog number:N816.3KN.18)

Software

FlowJo software (LLC, BD (Becton, Dickinson & Company, https://www.flowjo.com/)
BD FACSDiva Software (version8.0.1, firmware version 1.49 BD FACSCanto II)

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Ruer-Laventie, J., Jayachandran, R., Schmaler, M., Rossi, S. W. and Pieters, J. (2020). Skin Transplantation and Lymphoid Organ Analysis in Mice. Bio-protocol 10(4): e3531. DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.3531.