A rapid high-precision flow cytometry based technique for total white blood cell counting in chickens

Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology

Volumn 145, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 86-99

  Seliger, Christian ^a   Schaerer, Beatrice ^a   Kohn, Marina ^a   Pendl, Helene ^b   Weigend, Steffen ^c   Kaspers, Bernd ^a   Härtle, Sonja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b PendlLab ^*  (Switzerland)

^c FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chicken; Flow cytometry; Leukocyte quantification; White blood differential

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CD45 ANTIGEN; EDETIC ACID; FLUOROCHROME; LEUKOCYTE ANTIBODY; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BLOOD SAMPLING; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL SEPARATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CHICKEN; CONJUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLYSIS; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GRANULOCYTE; HELPER CELL; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; MICROSCOPY; MONOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; T LYMPHOCYTE; THROMBOCYTE;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PLATELETS; CHICKENS; COLORING AGENTS; EOSINOPHILS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTES; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTES; MICROSCOPY; MONOCYTES;

AVES; GALLUS GALLUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84856557046     PISSN: 01652427     EISSN: 18732534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetimm.2011.10.010     Document Type: Article

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