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ctivity Our literature search c-Met inhibitor 2 revealed that out of 2,035 scientific manuscripts published on MPO in 2011 and 2012, 362 assessed for MPO activity. We excluded 28 manuscripts written in languages other than English, and 44 manuscripts where the full text was inaccessible. To further study the methodologies used in these manuscripts, we limited the search to manuscripts that measured MPO activity in tissues rather than cell culture supernatants. We found 277 manuscripts. The goal of 193 manuscripts was to evaluate tissue MPO activity, while in 84 manuscripts the authors attempted to quantify tissue neutrophil content. For tissue MPO activity, in most manuscripts whole tissue homogenates were used, and only one paper extracted extracellular fluid. Importantly, we identified 28 papers with the goal to measure MPO activity, 12490620 but instead of activity assays ELISAs were used, which measure MPO protein content, but not activity. Overall, the most commonly used probes were odianisidine and TMB, followed by ADHP, taurine, and a few other probes. These results show that there is no consensus in the literature on which assay to use and that incorrect modalities are also being used. Of In vivo MPO Activity Imaging Demonstrates Effect of MPO Inhibition, While in vitro MPO Activity Assays do not Detect a Difference In the presence of inflammatory stimuli, inflammatory cells degranulate and release their enzymatic contents, such as MPO, into the extracellular environment. When treating EAE mice with ABAH, a specific irreversible MPO inhibitor, MPO-Gd MR imaging detected a significant difference between saline control and ABAH-treated mice. In contrast, MPO activity assays on whole tissue homogenates with ADHP or TMB failed to detect the difference found on imaging. While MPO-Gd cannot penetrate cells and therefore detects only extracellular MPO activity, our in vitro assays were performed on whole tissue homogenates. In addition, ABAH does not inhibit intracellular 21836025 MPO. While intracellular and extracellular MPO are implicated in host defense against microbial infections; in non-infectious diseases, it is thought that extracellular MPO contributes to the majority of unwanted oxidative stress and tissue damage. Thus isolating and assessing extracellular MPO may better reflect induced oxidative damage caused by degranulating myeloid cells and treatment response. 4 Measuring MPO Activity Validation of ECF Protein Extraction and MPO Retrieval After Protein Precipitation To validate that our method to isolate ECF and ICF works on various organs, we measured the activity of LDH, a strictly intracellular enzyme, on extracts from different organs. The ICF of kidney, brain, lungs, spleen, liver, and heart contained 198.7, 215.6, 47.7, 58.9, 83.9, and 31.3 mU LDH/mg BCA protein, respectively. ECF contained 0.65, 1.48, 0.52, 0.19, 0.52, and 0.30 mU LDH/mg BCA protein, respectively. The ratio of intra- over extracellular LDH activity normalized to BCA protein was between 91 and 301. Taken together, these results suggest that there is no significant contamination from intracellular proteins in our extracellular protein isolation method. Because of the relatively high volume of extraction buffer needed and the subsequently low protein concentration of the extracellular fluid, it was necessary to concentrate proteins before further use. We tested two methods of protein precipitation: acetone and ammonium sulfate. With ammonium sulfate, the recovered MPO had lost most of