| Literature DB >> 34057717 |
Amélie Bonaud1, Karl Balabanian2, Marion Espéli3.
Abstract
B cell development is a stepwise process encompassing several B cell precursor stages that can be phenotypically distinguished, and that is taking place in the bone marrow in adults. Interestingly, within the bone marrow B cell precursors coexist with the most differentiated actors of this lineage, the plasma cells. In this chapter, we describe a method to recover cells from the bone marrow and a flow cytometric approach to identify each subpopulation of the B cell lineage that resides within the bone marrow compartment. This protocol focuses on membrane markers to discriminate all the B cell subpopulations in order to preserve cell integrity during experimentation and for further analyses.Entities:
Keywords: B cell lineage; Bone marrow; Flow cytometry; Immature B cell; Mature B cell; Plasma cell; Pre-B cell; Prepro-B cell; Pro-B cell
Year: 2021 PMID: 34057717 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-1425-9_8
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Methods Mol Biol ISSN: 1064-3745