I am trying to adapt the protocol found below, but they use THP1 cells, I am using murine BMDM. I am wondering if this is possible? I cannot find purified mouse HDL or apolipoprotein anywhere and we would like to avoid purifying it ourselves if possible.
Cholesterol Efflux protocol I am trying to adapt:
To assess NBD-cholesterol efflux, macrophages were incubated in phenol red-free RPMI 1640 medium containing 5 µmol/l NBD-cholesterol for 4 h at 37°C. Following incubation, the cells were washed with PBS three times and were then incubated with HDL or apoA-1, as lipid acceptors. To determine the correlation, various concentrations of HDL (5, 20, 50 and 100 µg/ml) and apoA-1 (10, 20, 50 and 100 µg/ml) were used for the [3H]-cholesterol and NBD-cholesterol efflux assays. HDL concentrations ranged between 5 and 100 µg/ml, and apoA-1 ranged between 10 and 100 µg/ml. Subsequently, the cells were harvested after 4 h, and the medium and cell lysate were collected for the detection of FI. Triton X-100 (0.1%) was used to lyse the cells in a 12-well plate, and the cells lysate was homogenized by pipetting up and down several times. A total volume of 600 µl was then aliquoted into three wells of a 96-well plate for the measurement of FI. The percentage of NBD-cholesterol efflux was calculated by dividing the FI in the medium by the sum of the FI in the medium and cell lysate. All data were from three independent experiments, each performed in triplicate.
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