Re: plasma cells

Anna Porwit-MacDonald (anpo@mb.ks.se)
Tue, 23 Sep 1997 14:47:17 +0200

Hi,
If you use the tripple staining with CD19/CD38/CD45 you can try to detect
plasma cells as those with an overexpression of CD38(+++ or >10e3)
and/CD45-/CD19-.
With best wishes
Anna

Anna Porwit-MacDonald
Haematopathology Lab.,
Karolinska Hospital
Stockholm
Sweden

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>Does anyone know of a way of identifying plasma cells by flow? I have CD38
>but it doesn't seem very specific. We wish to monitor the differentiation
>of primary B-cells into plasma cells.
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>Simon Monard
>Aaron Diamond Center for AIDS Research
>455 1st Avenue
>NYC
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