Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research 1 article published in JoVE Immunology and Infection Isolation of Myeloid Dendritic Cells and Epithelial Cells from Human Thymus Christina Stoeckle1,2, Ioanna A. Rota1, Eva Tolosa3, Christoph Haller4, Arthur Melms5, Eleni Adamopoulou1 1Department of General Neurology, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, 2Institute of Pharmacology, University of Bern, 3Department of Immunology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 4Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University Clinic Tuebingen, 5Department of Neurology, University Hospital Erlangen This protocol details a method to isolate antigen presenting cells from human thymus via different steps of enzymatic digestion of the tissue followed by density centrifugation of the single cell suspension and finally magnetic and/or FACS sorting of the cell populations of interest.
