Abstract：
:The microenvironment of the thymus consists of functionally discrete niches composed of distinct stromal cell subsets. Clinically relevant changes affecting T-cell differentiation occur within these niches with age and injury caused by irradiation and chemotherapy treatments. The study of thymic stromal cells has been hampered by the technical difficulty in isolating significant numbers of this important population. Here we present an improved protocol for enzymatic isolation of stromal cells that enables comparative flow cytometric analyses and their purification for downstream cellular or molecular analysis. Fractions analyzed throughout enzymatic digestion of the thymus revealed that various stromal subsets are isolated at characteristic intervals. This highlights the importance of pooling all cells isolated from the thymus for numerical and phenotypic analysis to avoid biased representation of subpopulations. We also describe refined magnetic bead separation techniques that yield almost pure preparations of CD45(-) stroma. Sorting of these suspensions using defined markers enabled purification of the major epithelial subsets, confirmed by keratin staining and PCR analysis. This three-step procedure represents a rapid, reproducible method for the unbiased purification of the stromal cells that direct thymic T-cell differentiation.
journal_name
J Immunol Methodsjournal_title
Journal of immunological methodsauthors
Gray DH,Fletcher AL,Hammett M,Seach N,Ueno T,Young LF,Barbuto J,Boyd RL,Chidgey APdoi
10.1016/j.jim.2007.09.010subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2008-01-01 00:00:00pages
56-66issue
1-2eissn
0022-1759issn
1872-7905pii
S0022-1759(07)00309-2journal_volume
329pub_type
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