Processing Of Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid And Matched Blood For Alveolar Macrophage And Cd4(+) T-Cell Immunophenotyping And Hiv Reservoir Assessment
JOVE-JOURNAL OF VISUALIZED EXPERIMENTS(2019)
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Bronchoscopy is a medical procedure whereby normal saline is injected into the lungs via a bronchoscope and then suction is applied, removing bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid. The BAL fluid is rich in cells and can thus provide a 'snapshot' of the pulmonary immune milieu. CD4 T cells are the best characterized HIV reservoirs, while there is strong evidence to suggest that tissue macrophages, including alveolar macrophages (AMs), also serve as viral reservoirs. However, much is still unknown about the role of AMs in the context of HIV reservoir establishment and maintenance. Therefore, developing a protocol for processing BAL fluid to obtain cells that may be used in virological and immunological assays to characterize and evaluate the cell populations and subsets within the lung is relevant for understanding the role of the lungs as HIV reservoirs. Herein, we describe such a protocol, employing standard techniques such as simple centrifugation and flow cytometry. The CD4 T cells and AMs may then be used for subsequent applications, including immunophenotyping and HIV DNA and RNA quantification.
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Immunology and Infection,Issue 148,Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL),alveolar macrophages,immunophenotyping,CD4 T cells,HIV RNA,HIV reservoir,myeloid cells,antiretroviral therapy (ART),alveolar macrophages (AMs)
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