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Download fileSingle cell tracking of gadolinium labeled CD4(+) T cells by laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry
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posted on 14.10.2014, 15:41 authored by Amy ManaghAmy Managh, Sheldon L. Edwards, Andrew Bushell, Kathryn J. Wood, Edward K. Geissler, James A. Hutchinson, Robert W. Hutchinson, Helen Reid, Barry SharpCellular therapy is emerging as a promising alternative to conventional immunosuppression in the fields of haematopoietic stem cell (HSC) transplantation, autoimmune disease and solid organ transplantation. Determining the persistence of cell-based therapies in vivo is crucial to understanding their regulatory function and requires the combination of an extremely sensitive detection technique and a stable, long-lifetime cell labelling agent. This paper reports the first application of laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) to perform single cell detection of T cell populations relevant to cellular immunotherapy. Purified human CD4+ T cells were labelled with commercially available Gd-based MRI contrast agents, Omniscan® and Dotarem®, which enabled passive loading of up to 108 Gd atoms per cell. In mixed preparations of labelled and unlabelled cells, LA-ICP-MS was capable of enumerating labelled cells at close to the predicted ratio. More importantly, LA-ICP-MS single cell analysis demonstrated that the cells retained sufficient label to remain detectable for up to 10 days post-labelling both in vitro and in vivo in an immunodeficient mouse model.
Funding
Support received from the ONE Study, a European Commission Seventh Framework Program funded project (EU FP7-HEALTH “The ONE Study”, Project reference 260687), and the British Heart Foundation PG 10/62/28504 is gratefully acknowledged.
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