Despite advances in intensive care unit interventions, including the use of specific antibiotics and anti-inflammation treatment, sepsis with concomitant multiple organ failure is the most common cause of death in many acute care units. In order to understand the mechanisms of clinical sepsis and develop effective therapeutic modalities, there is a need to use effective experimental models that faithfully replicate what occurs in patients with sepsis. Several models are commonly used to study sepsis, including intravenous endotoxin challenge, injection of live organisms into the peritoneal cavity, establishing abscesses in the extremities, and the induction of experimental polymicrobial peritonitis via cecal ligation and puncture (CLP). Here, we describe the surgical procedure of CLP in mice, which has been demonstrated to closely replicate the nature and course of clinical sepsis in human subjects.
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Vitro, I., Cd, E., Read, K. A., Powell, M. D., Sreekumar, B. K., & Oestreich, K. J. (2019). Mouse Models of Innate Immunity - Methods & Protocols. Allen I. (Eds): Mouse Models of Innate Immunity, Methods in Molecular Biology, 1960(1), 227–236.
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