CD4+ T helper cell differentiation

From: Suat Dervish <sdervish@med.usyd.edu.au>
Date: Fri Jun 27 2008 - 01:10:58 EDT
Hi flowers,


I am doing some T helper differentiation experiments and am just wondering
about some specifics that people are doing.


If people magnetically select CD4+ T cells and then only culture these
cells, for like 5 day later staining, do people restain for CD4 and then
look at e.g IL17, IFN-Y production? Or do you only stain for these
cytokines>?? And just choose everything that falls in the lymphocyte gate.


What numbers of t cells are seeded to get good %'s when running flow.
Example seeded 100000 cells / well. 200uL volume, is this usually enough?
Because I am having trouble getting many events after all the staining,
intracellular staining, etc etc.


Any other ideas/useful heads upss would be greatly appreciated. Thanks




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Suat Dervish

PhD Student

The Sutton Arthritis Research Laboratories

Royal North Shore Hospital

NSW, Australia

Phone:9926 6251

Email: sdervish@med.usyd.edu.au

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