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Purification, Phenotypic and Functional Analyses of Regulatory T Cells in Autoimmunity.
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) - 1 Jan 2026
Shah Nainisha, Fortuin Annemarie, Afonso Georgia, Louis-Plence Pascale
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Regulatory T cells (Tregs) are essential in maintaining immune tolerance and preventing autoimmune responses. In this chapter, we describe methods for isolating highly purified human CD4+ Tregs from peripheral blood mononuclear cells and synovial fluid mononuclear cells of patients with rheumatoid arthritis, as an example of autoimmune disease. We outline the methods for flow cytometry-based cell sorting to...
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