Journal article
Effect of peripheral blood mononuclear cell cryopreservation on innate and adaptive immune responses
J Anderson, ZQ Toh, A Reitsma, LAH Do, J Nathanielsz, PV Licciardi
Journal of Immunological Methods | ELSEVIER | Published : 2019
Abstract
Cryopreservation of blood-derived immune cells is commonly used in clinical trials to examine immunological responses. However, studies elucidating the effects of cryopreservation on peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) responses have shown inconsistent results making it difficult to draw meaningful conclusions. Therefore we sought to address this issue by comparing key innate and adaptive immune parameters between freshly-isolated and cryopreserved PBMCs from healthy adults. We examined the effect of cryopreservation on the expression of key markers on innate and adaptive immune cell populations (i.e. CD4+ and CD8+ [T cells], CD14+ [monocytes], CD19+ [B cells], CD56+ [NK cells] or CD19 ..
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Funding Acknowledgements
We thank all the study participants for their involvement in this study. P.V.L conceived and designed the experiments; J.A, Z.Q.T and A.R performed the experiments; J.A, Z.Q.T, P.V.L and A.R analysed the data; J.A, P.V.L, Z.Q.T, L.A.H.D and J.N wrote the paper. P.V.L was supported by a Career Development Fellowship from the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council. We also acknowledge the Victorian Government's Operational Infrastructure Support Program.