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Characterizing Salmonella Typhimurium-induced Septic Peritonitis in Mice

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JOVE-JOURNAL OF VISUALIZED EXPERIMENTS
Volume -, Issue 185, Pages -

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JOURNAL OF VISUALIZED EXPERIMENTS
DOI: 10.3791/63695

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  1. Department of Biotechnology and Science and Engineering Research Board, Government of India

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Sepsis is a dysregulated host immune response to microbial invasion or tissue damage, resulting in organ injury at a site distant from the infection or damage. This method describes a protocol for studying host responses during Salmonella Typhimurium infection-induced septic peritonitis in mice. The model involves culture preparation, intraperitoneal injection to induce septic peritonitis, and methods for studying systemic host responses. This model can be useful for studying immune responses during bacterial sepsis, the role of genes in disease progression, and the effects of drugs to attenuate sepsis.
Sepsis is a dysregulated host immune response to microbial invasion or tissue damage, leading to organ injury at a site distant from that of the infection or damage. Currently, the widely used mice models of sepsis include lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced endotoxemia, cecal ligation and puncture (CLP), and monobacterial infection model systems. This protocol describes a method to study the host responses during Salmonella Typhimurium infection-induced septic peritonitis in mice. S. Typhimurium, a Gram-negative intracellular pathogen, causes typhoid-like disease in mice. This protocol elaborates the culture preparation, induction of septic peritonitis in mice through intraperitoneal injection, and methods to study systemic host responses. Furthermore, the assessment of bacterial burden in different organs and the flow cytometric analysis of increased neutrophil numbers in the peritoneal lavage is presented. Salmonella Typhimurium-induced sepsis in mice leads to an increase in proinflammatory cytokines and rapid infiltration of neutrophils in the peritoneal cavity, leading to lower survival. Every step in this protocol has been optimized, resulting in high reproducibility of the pathogenesis of septic peritonitis. This model is useful for studying immunological responses during bacterial sepsis, the roles of different genes in disease progression, and the effects of drugs to attenuate sepsis.

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