Isolation and Characterization of Lymphocytes from Human Mucosal Biopsies.

Isolation and Characterization of Lymphocytes from Human Mucosal Biopsies. Methods Mol Biol. 2019;2020:165-174 Authors: Upton NEG, Hayday TS, James LK Abstract The important role of the local mucosal environment in both the initiation and progression of allergic disease is well established. Analysis of tissue-resident lymphocyte subsets by flow cytometry requires isolation of viable cells from mucosal samples.Here we describe an advanced method to dissociate lymphocytes from human mucosal (e.g., nasal, bronchial) biopsies. Single-cell suspensions are obtained through a combination of gentle mechanical disruption and incubation of tissue with proteolytic enzymes. This method fully utilizes limited clinical samples and is amenable to a variety of downstream applications for phenotypic, single-cell analysis of tissue lymphocytes or pooled lymphocyte subsets. PMID: 31177499 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Mol Biol Cell - Category: Molecular Biology Authors: Tags: Methods Mol Biol Source Type: research