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Cell-based Flow Cytometry Assay to Measure Cytotoxic Activity
Published on: December 17, 2013
Three-colour, one-tube flow cytometric method for enumeration of CD4+ and CD8+ lymphocytes
1Department of Clinical Laboratories, Catharina Hospital, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
Annals of Clinical Biochemistry
|June 17, 1999
Abstract:
We investigated the usefulness of a one-tube, three-colour flow cytometric method for enumerating CD4+ and CD8+ lymphocytes. This method does not use any control antibodies and we compared it to the standard methods using either control and CD14/CD45 antibodies or control antibodies only on 38 blood samples from healthy and human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients. The one-tube method showed good agreement with the other, more complicated methods and is therefore suitable for reliable enumeration of CD4+ and CD8+ T-lymphocytes.

