A modified flow cytometry method for objective estimation of human CD4+ regulatory T cells (CD4+ Tregs) in peripheral blood, via CD4/CD25/CD45RO/FoxP3 labeling.
Asimina PetsiouStavroula A PaschouGeorgios VartholomatosKaterina ChatzigianniNikolaos KolaitisEleni GiotakiGeorge P BondinasAntonis K MoustakasAchilleas KaramoutsiosEleftheria ZervouStelios TigasAgathocles TsatsoulisGeorge K PapadopoulosPublished in: Cytometry. Part B, Clinical cytometry (2019)
Our comparison shows that CD4/CD25/CD45RO/FoxP3 panels are an objective means of estimating effector and naïve Tregs via colored dot plots, aiding thus in Treg delineation in health and detecting aberrations in disease.