A flow cytometric method to assess antigen-specific proliferative responses of different subpopulations of fresh and cryopreserved human peripheral blood mononuclear cells

Journal of Immunological Methods

Volumn 214, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 175-186

  Allsopp, Catherine E M ^a   Nicholls, Stephen J ^a   Langhorne, Jean ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Flow cytometry; PKH26; Subpopulation

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELL LABELING; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOASSAY; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESERVATION; CELL DIVISION; CRYOPRESERVATION; EPITOPES; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENT DYES; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; TETANUS TOXOID;

EID: 0031813435     PISSN: 00221759     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1759(98)00056-8     Document Type: Article

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