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Isolation of Myeloid Dendritic Cells and Epithelial Cells from Human Thymus
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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
Chapters
- 00:05Title
- 01:11Preparation of the Tissue
- 02:45Typical Enzymatic Tissue Digestion to Obtain a Single Cell Suspension
- 04:35Enrichment of Low Density Fraction (LDF) of Cells Using Percoll Density Separation
- 06:00Results: Representative Myeloid DC and TEC Populations Isolated from the Human Thymus
- 08:06Conclusion
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.
