Isolation of Tonsillar Mononuclear Cells to Study Ex Vivo Innate Immune Responses in a Human Mucosal Lymphoid TissueNikaïa Smith 1,2,3,4, Nassima Bekaddour 2,3,4, Nicolas Leboulanger 4,5, Yolande Richard *6, Jean-Philippe Herbeuval *2,3,4
1Institute of Molecular Virology, Ulm University Medical Center, 2CNRS UMR-8601, Centre Interdisciplinaire Chimie Biologie, 3Team Chemistry & Biology, Modeling & Immunology for Therapy, Université Paris Descartes, 4Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 5Pediatric Otolaryngology Department, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, 6Université de Paris, Institut Cochin
In the present protocol, we explain how to easily process and culture tonsillar mononuclear cells from healthy humans undergoing partial surgical tonsillectomy to study innate immune responses upon activation, mimicking viral infection in mucosal tissues.
