In Vitro Analyses of T Cell Effector Differentiation

Elizabeth A Wohlfert1, Andrea C Carpenter, Yasmine Belkaid

  • 1Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo (SUNY), 251 Biomedical Research Building, Buffalo, NY, 14214, USA, wohlfert@buffalo.edu.

In vitro culture is an important complement, or substitute, to in vivo approaches in order to study T cell effector differentiation. Here, we describe culture conditions that generate specific effector cell types by exposing naïve T cells to appropriate cytokine signals.