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From the Department of Pathology, Montreal General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, and the Immunology Division, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England
Abstract
Ig-bearing mononuclear cells were identified in Ficoll-Hypaque preparations of human peripheral blood by using mixed anti-globulin (MAG) and direct anti-globulin rosettes; indicator cells consisted of sheep erythrocytes coated with human F(ab')2 or anti-F(ab')2 antibody, respectively. Of the cell populations isolated from 10 normal subjects, a mean of 68% was lymphocytes. However, fewer than 50% of the cells with detectable surface Ig were lymphocytes. On viable cell preparations using chromic chloride-treated sheep erythrocytes (CrCl3SRBC) coated with anti-F(ab')2 antibody, a mean of 20.1% of the lymphocytes formed rosettes, i.e., were B. Up to 6% of peripheral blood lymphocytes formed mixed Ig-rosettes and E-rosettes.
On viable lymphocytes using F(ab')2-coated CrCl3 SRBC, MAG rosettes were insensitive in detection of B lymphocytes. Formaldehyde treatment of lymphocytes increased the number of B cells detectable to 25.5% of the lymphocyte population. Study of T-enriched and B-enriched populations showed that the observed increase in B cell reactivity was real and not due to MAG-rosetting T cells. A one-stage procedure for T and B lymphocyte separation is described.
Footnotes
1 D. G. H. is supported by a grant from the National Cancer Institute of Canada.
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