RBC and anti glycophorinA

From: ray hester (rhester@jaguar1.usouthal.edu)
Date: Mon May 06 2002 - 15:15:17 EST


Greetings,

Can anyone tell us if (IgG) anti glycophorin A antibody will cause
substantial changes in light scatter (particularly forward scatter) of
(human) RBC?   We seem to see decreased forward scatter to the point of many
of the RBC almost being off scale to the left, and increasing the FSC gain
doesn't really help to bring these back on scale.  This was just observed
today and the investigators will have to go back and look at the cells
microscopically after staining but I thought I would ask the group.

Should they leave out added Ca and Mg in their binding and wash buffer,
i.e., are these (Ca/Mg)more of a problem with antibody staining of RBC than
lymphocytes?

Thanks for any information.

Ray Hester
College of Medicine
Univ. of South Alabama
rhester@jaguar1.usouthal.edu



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