Lymphocyte activation

From: Arumugham Raghunathan (ragoor@molecularstaging.com)
Date: Mon May 06 2002 - 15:55:39 EST


Hi all,
A question about activation of lymphs. When I activated lymphocytes using
PMA and ionomycin, I see a population of cells with reduced side scatter
properties apart from the regular lymphocytes. It looks like there are two
populations (parallel shift) based on SSC. The shift is towards the left,
and the number of cells shifting increases with activation-time.

Has anyone observed this? What is it due to? Do the cells (lymphs) shrink
upon activation?

thanks,
Ragoo

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Flow Cytometry Group
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New Haven, CT 06510

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