A simple trogocytosis-based method to detect, quantify, characterize and purify antigen-specific live lymphocytes by flow cytometry, via their capture of membrane fragments from antigen-presenting cells

Nature Protocols

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2536-2542

  Daubeuf, Sandrine ^a   Puaux, Anne Laure ^a   Joly, Etienne ^a   Hudrisier, Denis ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT DE PHARMACOLOGIE ET DE BIOLOGIE STRUCTURALE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIATION ANTIGEN; FLUORESCENT DYE;

ANIMAL; ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; ARTICLE; ENDOCYTOSIS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTIGEN-PRESENTING CELLS; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION; ENDOCYTOSIS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENT DYES; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES; MICE;

EID: 34548569316     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2006.400     Document Type: Article

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