Generation of bone marrow and fetal liver chimeric mice

Methods Mol Biol. 2013:1032:315-21. doi: 10.1007/978-1-62703-496-8_24.

Abstract

The creation of bone marrow and fetal liver chimeric mice has proven to be a valuable tool in the field of immunology. Chimeric mice are used to study the contribution of various cell types of hematopoietic versus non-hematopoietic origin in the course of an immune response. In this chapter, we describe a detailed method to obtain bone marrow or fetal liver chimeric mice and assess the efficiency of donor cells to repopulate the hematopoietic compartment of recipient mice.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Antibodies / immunology
  • Bone Marrow Cells / immunology
  • Bone Marrow Transplantation / methods*
  • Chimera / immunology*
  • Fetus / immunology
  • Humans
  • Liver Transplantation / methods*
  • Mice

Substances

  • Antibodies