Peptide: MHC tetramer-based enrichment of epitope-specific T cells

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 68, 2012, Pages

  Legoux, Francois P ^a   Moon, James J ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Antigen specific; Cellular biology; Enrichment; Flow cytometry; Immune response; Immunology; In vivo; Issue 68; Magnetic; Molecular biology; T cell; T cell receptor; Tetramer

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868282392     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/4420     Document Type: Article

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