A MitoTracker Green-based flow cytometric assay for natural killer cell activity: Variability, the influence of platelets and a comparison of analytical approaches

Experimental Hematology

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 350-357

  Hopkinson, Kay ^a   Williams, Elizabeth A ^b   Fairburn, Barbara ^a,b   Forster, Sarah ^b   Flower, Daniel J ^a,b   Saxton, John M ^c   Pockley, A Graham ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; EVALUATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATION;

ADULT; AGED; ALDEHYDES; BLOOD PLATELETS; CYTOTOXICITY TESTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; CYTOTOXICITY, IMMUNOLOGIC; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; K562 CELLS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33847032935     PISSN: 0301472X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exphem.2006.12.001     Document Type: Article

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