intracellular cytokines

From: medbury@renal.wsahs.nsw.gov.au
Date: Fri May 29 1998 - 21:39:33 EST


Hi flow-ers

I am starting to dabble with intracellular cytokine detection by flow 
cyto  in mouse lymphocytes. 
To start with I just want to look at CD3 and IL-2 to get the method 
working. I am following the Pharmingen methods.
I am just going to stimulate the cells with a mitogen first

 does anyone know the best conditions??

I tried PMA 10ng/ml, ionomycin 1uM, 2-ME 100uM and monensin 1um
for 16hrs ie overnight, but  I couldnt detect IL-2, even when I gated 
on the CD3 population.
thanks for any replies
most appreciated

Heather
Heather Medbury PhD
Department of Surgery
Westmead Hospital 
Westmead, NSW, 2145
Australia
ph (612) 9845 7680
fx (612) 9893 7440


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