Guidelines for the use of flow cytometry and cell sorting in immunological studies

Introduction: Guidelines for the use of flow cytometry in immunology

The marriage between immunology and cytometry is one of the most stable and productive in the recent history of science. A rapid search in PubMed shows that, as of July 2017, using “flow cytometry immunology” as a search term yields more than 68 000 articles, the first of which, interestingly, is not about lymphocytes.

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