1. Phenotypic and Functional Analysis of Antigen-Specific T Cell Exhaustion.
- Author
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Boswell KL and Yamamoto T
- Subjects
- Cytokines immunology, Genes, MHC Class I immunology, HIV Infections pathology, Humans, Interferon-gamma immunology, CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes immunology, Flow Cytometry methods, HIV Infections immunology, Immunologic Techniques methods
- Abstract
In some cancers and chronic infections exhausted T cells increase their expression of inhibitory receptors and demonstrate an impaired ability to produce cytokines and to proliferate. Immunological techniques such as MHC class I tetramer staining, intracellular cytokine staining, and CFSE dilution can be used to determine the memory status, inhibitory receptor expression, cytokine production, and proliferative capacity of antigen-specific CD8
+ T cells. Here, we describe approaches to define the inhibitory receptor expression, cytokine production, and proliferative capacity of antigen-specific CD8+ T cells from HIV-infected and CMV-infected donors by using polychromatic flow cytometry.- Published
- 2017
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