BMC Immunology

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Standardization of cytokine flow cytometry assays

Holden T Maecker1*, Aline Rinfret2, Patricia D'Souza3, Janice Darden3, Eva Roig2, Claire Landry2, Peter Hayes4, Josephine Birungi5, Omu Anzala6, Miguel Garcia7, Alexandre Harari7, Ian Frank8, Ruth Baydo8, Megan Baker9, Jennifer Holbrook9, Janet Ottinger9, Laurie Lamoreaux10, C Lorrie Epling11, Elizabeth Sinclair11, Maria A Suni1, Kara Punt12, Sandra Calarota13, Sophia El-Bahi14, Gailet Alter15, Hazel Maila16, Ellen Kuta17, Josephine Cox17, Clive Gray16, Marcus Altfeld15, Nolwenn Nougarede14, Jean Boyer13, Lynda Tussey12, Timothy Tobery12, Barry Bredt11, Mario Roederer10, Richard Koup10, Vernon C Maino1, Kent Weinhold9, Giuseppe Pantaleo7, Jill Gilmour4, Helen Horton8 and Rafick P Sekaly2

Author Affiliations

1 BD Biosciences, San Jose, USA

2 Université de Montreal and CANVAC, the Canadian Network for Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics, Montreal, Canada

3 National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA

4 Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and IAVI, London, UK

5 Uganda Virus Research Institute and IAVI, Entebbe, Uganda

6 Kenya AIDS Vaccine Initiative (KAVI), University of Nairobi, Kenya

7 Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois and EUROVAC, Lausanne, Switzerland

8 University of Washington and HVTN, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, USA

9 Duke University Medical Center and HVTN, Durham, USA

10 Vaccine Research Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA

11 University of California, San Francisco, USA

12 Merck and Co., West Point, USA

13 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

14 Sanofi Pasteur, Lyon, France

15 Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA

16 National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa

17 Henry Jackson Foundation, Rockville, USA

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BMC Immunology 2005, 6:13 doi:10.1186/1471-2172-6-13

Published: 24 June 2005

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Protocol for fixed, activated whole blood (Experiment 1)

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Protocol for shipped whole blood (Experiment 2)

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Protocol for cryopreserved PBMC (Experiment 3)

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Protocol for cryopreserved PBMC with lyophilised antigen and antibody plates (Experiment 4)

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