Reticulocyte purification/enrichment

From: Dana Levasseur (Dana_Levasseur@microbio.uab.edu)
Date: Wed Nov 10 1999 - 11:25:12 EST


Hello All,

We're working with several different transgenic knockout lines of mice which
exhibit a severe peripheral blood reticulocytosis as well as hypercellular
bone marrow.  It would be nice to find a reliable enrichment or purification
protocol to look at retics and stress retics in these animals to verify the
numbers I am seeing with thiazole orange and other nucleic acid-staining
dyes like SYTO.  The literature mentions exploiting ion gradient
characteristics but I want to try to keep the mouse cells in a reasonably
physiological buffer as they are a little less hardy than human RBCS.
Anyone have any experience or ideas? 

Much appreciated!

Dana
Dana Levasseur
Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
University of Alabama at Birmingham
845 19th Street South
Bevill Biomedical Research Building Rm. 870 
Birmingham, AL  35294
Tel: 205-933-5334
Email: dnl@uab.edu



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