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    An Optimized Tat/Rev Induced Limiting Dilution Assay for the Characterization of HIV-1 Latent Reservoirs

    The administration of antiretroviral therapy (ART) leads to a rapid reduction in plasma viral load in HIV-1 seropositive subjects. However, when ART is suspended, the virus rebounds due to the presence of a latent viral reservoir. Several techniques

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    Efficient Method to Differentiate Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells into Macrophages in vitro
    Authors:  Qimin Hai, Juying Han, Sophia Wells and Jonathan D. Smith, date: 02/05/2022, view: 2335, Q&A: 0

    Macrophages are key cells in the innate immune system and play a role in a variety of diseases. However, macrophages are terminally differentiated and difficult to manipulate genetically via transfection or through CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing. To

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    Suppression of Human Dendritic Cells by Regulatory T Cells
    Authors:  Qing Huang, Avery J. Lam, Dominic A. Boardman, Nicholas A. J. Dawson and Megan K. Levings, date: 11/05/2021, view: 2686, Q&A: 0

    Regulatory T cells (Tregs) suppress immune responses via a variety of mechanisms and can be used as a cellular therapy to induce tolerance. The function of Tregs is commonly assessed in vitro using assays that measure suppression of effector T cell

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    In vitro Differentiation of Thymic Treg Cell Progenitors to Mature Thymic Treg Cells
    Authors:  David L. Owen and Michael A. Farrar, date: 08/20/2019, view: 3519, Q&A: 0
    Thymic Treg cell differentiation occurs via a two-step process. Step one generates Treg cell progenitors (TregP) and is driven by strong TCR interactions with antigens presented in the thymus. Step two is initiated ...
    Induced Germinal Center B Cell Culture System
    Authors:  Kei Haniuda and Daisuke Kitamura, date: 02/20/2019, view: 12424, Q&A: 0
    The germinal center (GC) is the site where B cells undergo clonal expansion, affinity-based selection, and differentiation into memory B cells or plasma cells. It has been difficult to elucidate regulatory mechanisms for the dynamic GC B cell ...
    Ultrasound Guided Intra-thymic Injection to Track Recent Thymic Emigrants and Investigate T Cell Development
    To track recent thymic emigrants (RTEs) or study T cell development in the thymus, intra-thymic injection of a cellular tag or precursor cells for various T cell lineages is often desired. However, the traditional surgical approach to expose the ...
    High Dimensional Functionomic Analysis of Human Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells at a Single Cell Level
    Authors:  Thomas Luh, Kimberly Lucero, Wenji Ma, Jaeyop Lee, Yu Jerry Zhou, Yufeng Shen and Kang Liu, date: 05/20/2018, view: 7065, Q&A: 0
    The ability to conduct investigation of cellular transcription, signaling, and function at the single-cell level has opened opportunities to examine heterogeneous populations at unprecedented resolutions. Although methods have been developed to ...
    Generation of Busulfan Chimeric Mice for the Analysis of T Cell Population Dynamics
    Authors:  Thea Hogan, Andrew Yates and Benedict Seddon, date: 12/20/2017, view: 9434, Q&A: 0
    This protocol was developed to generate chimeric mice in which T lymphocytes could be stratified by age on the basis of congenic marker expression. The conditioning drug busulfan is used to ablate host haematopoietic stem cells while leaving the ...
    In vitro Homeostatic Proliferation of Human CD8 T Cells
    Authors:  Hossam A. Abdelsamed, Caitlin C. Zebley and Ben Youngblood, date: 11/20/2017, view: 10449, Q&A: 0
    Long-lived T-cell–mediated immunity requires persistence of memory T cells in an antigen-free environment while also maintaining a heightened capacity to recall effector functions. Such antigen-independent homeostatic proliferation is mediated in ...
    Differentiation of Myeloid-derived Suppressor Cells from Murine Bone Marrow and Their Co-culture with Splenic Dendritic Cells
    Authors:  Giada Mondanelli and Claudia Volpi, date: 09/20/2017, view: 10694, Q&A: 0
    Myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) possess the ability to suppress the immune response, and to amplify the regulatory properties of other immune cells, i.e., dendritic cells. Here we describe a protocol in which MDSCs were ...



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