期刊
JOVE-JOURNAL OF VISUALIZED EXPERIMENTS
卷 -, 期 133, 页码 -出版社
JOURNAL OF VISUALIZED EXPERIMENTS
DOI: 10.3791/57100
关键词
Immunology and Infection; Issue 133; Dendritic cells; genital tract; mucosa; endometrium; endocervix; ectocervix; women; allogeneic stimulation; T-cell proliferation; CD1a; CD1c; monocyte-derived cells
资金
- NIH [AI102838, AI117739]
- [P30CA023108-37]
- [P30GM103415-15]
The characterization of the human dendritic cells (DCs) resident in mucosal tissues is challenging due to the difficulty in obtaining samples, and the low numbers of DCs present per tissue. Yet, as the phenotype and function of DCs is modified by the tissue environment, it is necessary to analyze tissue resident DC populations, since blood derived DCs incompletely reflect the complexities of DCs in tissues. Here we present a protocol to isolate DCs from the human female reproductive tract (FRT) using hysterectomy specimens that allows both phenotypical and functional analyses. The protocol consists of tissue digestion to generate a single cell mixed cell suspension, followed by positive magnetic bead selection. Our tissue digestion protocol does not cleave surface markers, which allows phenotypical and functional analysis of DCs in the steady state, without overnight incubation or cell activation. This protocol can be adapted for the isolation of other immune cell types or isolation of DCs from other tissues.
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