High-dimensional immune phenotyping and transcriptional analyses reveal robust recovery of viable human immune and epithelial cells from frozen gastrointestinal tissue
Konnikova L, Boschetti G, Rahman A, Mitsialis V, Lord J, Richmond C, Tomov VT, Gordon W, Jelinsky S, Canavan J, Liss A, Wall S, Field M, Zhou F, Goldsmith JD, Bewtra M, Breault DT, Merad M, Snapper SB. High-dimensional immune phenotyping and transcriptional analyses reveal robust recovery of viable human immune and epithelial cells from frozen gastrointestinal tissue. Mucosal Immunology 2018, 11: 1684-1693. PMID: 30111863, PMCID: PMC6512331, DOI: 10.1038/s41385-018-0047-y.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsImmune cellsGastrointestinal tissuesMucosal immune compartmentPeripheral immune cellsMucosal immune cellsEpithelial cellsImmune compartmentImmune phenotypingTreatment responsivenessMucosal tissuesTranslational studiesDisease pathogenesisSimple storage techniquesPreservation of viabilityPathogenesisTissueBiomarker discoveryCellsDisease