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Highly Resolved Intravital Striped-illumination Microscopy of Germinal Centers
Published on: April 9, 2014
Optimized immunofluorescence staining protocol for imaging germinal centers in secondary lymphoid tissues of
Sigrid Fra-Bido1, Simon A Walker1, Silvia Innocentin1
1The Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus, Cambridge, CB22 3AT, UK.
Abstract:
Location of immune cells that form the germinal center reaction within secondary lymphoid tissues can be characterized using confocal microscopy. Here, we present an optimized immunofluorescence staining protocol to image germinal center structures in fixed/frozen spleen sections from ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 immunized mice. This protocol can be adapted to identify other cell types within secondary lymphoid tissues. For complete information on the generation and use of this protocol to examine immune responses to the COVID vaccine ChAdOx1 nCoV-19, please refer to Silva-Cayetano et al. (2020).
