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Blood Dendritic Cell Isolation Kit II, human

The Blood Dendritic Cell Isolation Kit II is a magnetic labeling system for the concurrent isolation of plasmacytoid and myeloid dendritic cells from human PBMCs.

Quantity

Detailed separation procedure

The isolation is performed in a two-step procedure. First, B cells and monocytes are magnetically labeled and depleted using a cocktail of CD19 and CD14 MicroBeads. Subsequently, the pre-enriched dendritic cells in the non-magnetic flow-through fraction are magnetically labeled and enriched using a cocktail of antibodies against the dendritic cell markers CD304 (BDCA-4/Neuropilin-1), CD141 (BDCA-3), and CD1c (BDCA-1). The highly pure enriched cell fraction comprises plasmacytoid dendritic cells, CD1c (BDCA-1)
+
 type-1 myeloid dendritic cells (MDC1s), and CD1c (BDCA-1)
-
 CD141 (BDCA-3)
bright
 type-2 myeloid dendritic cells (MDC2s).
B cells and monocytes are depleted in advance because a subpopulation of B cells expresses CD1c (BDCA-1), and monocytes express CD141 (BDCA-3) at low levels.

Downstream applications

Dendritic cells isolated by MACS® Technology are, for example, suitable for 
in vitro
 induction of primary T cell responses.

Columns

For the first magnetic separation (depletion): LD, CS, D, or autoMACS
®
 Columns. For the second magnetic separation (positive selection): MS, LS, or autoMACS Columns.