Abstract
Venous blood provides a ready source of large numbers of unstimulated granulocytes and mononuclear cells. Exploiting the differences in the relative densities of the leukocytes circulating in venous blood, one can separate leukocytes from erythrocytes as well as isolate the individual leukocyte populations in high purity for use in ex vivo studies. For selected functional studies, such as transcriptional analysis or cytokine quantitation, addition of an immunomagnetic negative selection step to the standard isolation protocol can yield highly purified human neutrophils.
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Kremserova, S., Nauseef, W.M. (2020). Isolation of Human Neutrophils from Venous Blood. In: Quinn, M., DeLeo, F. (eds) Neutrophil. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2087. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-0154-9_3
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