Hello, I'm trying to stimulate murine cytokine to induce inflammatory cytokine production such as IL-18 and IL-1beta. Can LPs be used as a stimulant? If so, what is the recommended concentration?
Stimulating agents such as phorbol-12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) and ionomycin are useful to activate transcription factors for intracellular signaling and production of cytokines of many different immune cell types.
I would suggest you stimulate murine splenocytes with PMA (50 ng/ml)/ionomycin (1µg/ml) for 5-6 hours at 37 degree C.
Yes, LPS can be used. The recommended concentration is 10 ug/ml. As for the incubation time, we have done 18 h, but anything from 12-24 h could be used.