[Fwd: sorting for mouse DC and Mac]

From: Nathalie Tessier (tessien@ircm.qc.ca)
Date: Thu Jan 10 2002 - 09:58:42 EST


Happy new year to all of you,

One of my users is having a request and I was wondering if some of you could
have some advices on mouse dendritic cells staining. I know that we can use the
CD208 for human cells but was wondering if there was a more specific marker for
mouse.

Thanks in advance

Nathalie Tessier
Cytometrie en flux
Institut de recherche cliniques de Montreal

Pavel Chrobak wrote:

> Dear Nathalie:
>     We would like to do sorting for mouse spleen and BM derived dendritic
> cells, as well as for peritoneal macrophages. Currently we are using Percoll
> followed by o/n incubation and then staining with CD11c FITC for DCs and o/n
> adherence on plastic followed by staining with Mac1 PE for macrophages. We
> were wondering if this is sufficient, or whether we should use different
> staining.
> Thanks.
> Pavel Chrobak
> Laboratory of Molecular Biology
> email:chrobakp@ircm.qc.ca

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Nathalie Tessier, M.Sc.

Adjointe au directeur de l'administration de la recherche
Responsable, Service de cytométrie en flux

Assistant director, Administration of research
Head of flow cytometry service

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