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. 1993 Mar;91(3):482–488. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2249.1993.tb05928.x

An improved enrichment method for functionally competent, highly purified peripheral blood dendritic cells and its application to HIV-infected blood samples.

E Karhumäki 1, M E Viljanen 1, M Cottler-Fox 1, A Ranki 1, C H Fox 1, K J Krohn 1
PMCID: PMC1554699  PMID: 8383023

Abstract

Dendritic cells (DC) were purified from human peripheral blood using a rapid and simple method based on magnetic depletion of phagocytes with carbonyl iron, followed by centrifugation of nonphagocytic cells on a Percoll density gradient and depletion of lymphocytes and macrophages/monocytes with a panel of MoAbs and immunomagnetic beads. Enriched DC were obtained with > 99% purity as judged by non-specific esterase (NSE) staining. After isolation, these cells, representing 0.4% of the starting mononuclear cell population, still function as potent antigen-presenting cells for purified T lymphocytes. The present results confirm the ability of human peripheral blood DC to present soluble antigens to T cells including microbial antigens and show, further, that DC are more potent soluble antigen-presenting cells than monocytes. The method was successfully applied to the purification of DC from the blood of HIV-infected individuals. We could not detect decreased numbers of DC in four individuals with early HIV infection and no replicating HIV was detected by in situ hybridization in the DC.

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