Production of primary human CD4⁺ T cell lines and clones
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Production of primary human CD4⁺ T cell lines and clones
Abstract
Tetramer staining of CD4(+) T cells is a valuable technique in immunology for detecting rare autoreactive T cells. Generating clones or cell lines from autoantigen tetramer-positive CD4(+) T cells allows further characterization and phenotyping of autoreactive cells.
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