Table 2.

CD34 antibody selection: epitope specificity and clones

Epitope class	Clone	Cell type	Assays performed	Reference
Ia. Sensitive to neuraminidase and glycoprotease	12.8	Hematopoietic cells, MSC, endothelial progenitors	Immunoblots, immunostaining, FACS	19, 47
	BI.3C5	MSC, keratocytes, endothelial progenitors	Immunoblots, immunostaining, FACS	1, 9, 75
Ib. Partially sensitive to neuraminidase and glycoprotease	ICH3	MSC, keratocytes, endothelial progenitors	Immunoblots, immunostaining, FACS	1, 9, 75, 102
	MY10	Hematopoietic cells, MSC, interstitial cells, endothelial progenitors	Immunoblots, immunostaining, FACS, Western blots	1, 5, 9, 36, 39, 56, 84
II. Resistant to neuraminidase and sensitive to glycoprotease	QBEnd10	MSC, muscle satellite cells, keratocytes, interstitial cells, HF epithelial progenitors, endothelial progenitors.	Immunoblots, immunostaining, flow cytometry	1, 16, 23, 25, 65, 77, 86, 89, 101, 102
III. Resistant to neuraminidase and glycoprotease	563	HF epithelial progenitors	Immunostaining	90
	581	Muscle satellite cells, keratocytes	Immunostaining, flow cytometry	16, 75
	8G12	Muscle satellite cells, haematopoietic cells, MSC	Immunostaining, flow cytometry, FACS	8, 12, 40, 44, 62, 64, 73
	TUK3	Endothelial progenitors	Immunoblots	1
	115.2	Endothelial progenitors	Immunoblots	1
Monoclonal (clone not stated)		MSC	Immunostaining, flow cytometry	10, 58, 59, 63, 69
Polyclonal		HF epithelial	Flow cytometry	91
Antibody type not stated		MSC, muscle satellite cells, keratocytes, HF epithelial progenitors, salivary epithelial progenitors, endothelial progenitors	Immunostaining, flow cytometry, FACS	13–15, 18, 21, 30, 34, 60, 67, 68, 70, 74, 82, 83, 92, 94

Abbreviations: FACS, fluorescence-activated cell sorting; HF, hair follicle; MSC, multipotent mesenchymal stromal cells.