Fig. 4. Establishment of new SC lines from cultures.
a After primary cultures, SCs from patients #5, #6 and #10 were plated between 42 and 63 days to achieve expansion in long-term culture. b Immunophenotype of the cell lines was evaluated before (original cells) and at the end point of the culture according to TCRVβ2 and CD3 expression to quantify tumor cells. Inside TCRVβ2 + CD3 + population, CCR7 and CD45RO expressions were used for assessing T-cell maturation stages (naive, TCM, TEM and TEMRA).