Macrophage function

Macrophage Killing Assay

  • How do you measure how well macrophages kill bacteria (or whether your treatment alters killing)? This is a standard kill curve protocol and a workhorse of the Bowdish lab. Specifically written to measure S. pneumoniae killing, can be adapted for any bacteria and any type of macrophage (e.g. human, murine, alveolar, bone marrow,etc).

Calcein staining of macrophages