Re: Identification of Eosinophils in Flow Cytometry

Mike Clark (mrc7@cam.ac.uk)
Fri, 20 Jun 1997 10:40:25 +0100 (BST)

On Thu 19 Jun, Dr. Martin R. Hadam wrote:
>
> You could also use CD52 (Campath-1) and/or CD16 to easily discriminate
> eosinophils from neutrophils: eosinophils are strongly CD52 positive
> and negative for CD16 (neutrophils are the other way round)
>
Regarding the expression of CD16 on eosinophils I have seen reports that
this FcR can be induced on eosinophils under some states of activation.
Can anyone comment on the reliability of these reports?

Mike Clark, <URL:http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/~mrc7/>

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