Erythrocyte lysing solutions have a detrimental effect in flow cytometric dendritic cell detection

Flow cytometry (FCM) enumeration of peripheral blood dendritic cells (PBDCs) is a minimally invasive procedure extremely useful for immunological studies. Numbers of PBDCs vary depending on age, lifestyle, or in pathologies like cancer, leukemia or immunodeficiencies. Conventional methods for PBDC i...

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Published in:Cytometry. Part A 2023-05, Vol.103 (5), p.383-391
Main Authors: Rico, Laura G., Salvia, Roser, Juncà, Jordi, Ward, Mike D., Bradford, Jolene A., Sorigue, Marc, Petriz, Jordi
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Ammonium
Ammonium chloride
Blood
Blood Cells
Cell Count
Centrifugation
Dendritic Cells
Dendritic structure
Enumeration
Erythrocytes
erythrolytic solutions
Flow cytometry
Flow Cytometry - methods
Immunology
Leukemia
Leukocytes
Leukocytes (basophilic)
Lysis
minimal sample perturbation
Peripheral blood
Perturbation
Populations
Target detection
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Summary:Flow cytometry (FCM) enumeration of peripheral blood dendritic cells (PBDCs) is a minimally invasive procedure extremely useful for immunological studies. Numbers of PBDCs vary depending on age, lifestyle, or in pathologies like cancer, leukemia or immunodeficiencies. Conventional methods for PBDC identification by FCM involve red blood cell lysis using either formaldehyde or ammonium chloride‐based solutions. This specific procedure has been widely reported to cause a detrimental effect as well as an artifactual detection of target populations. Alternatively, minimal sample perturbation assays that avoid the use of erythrolytic solutions with centrifugation steps and preserve the native cellular state are simpler and more robust than conventional methods. In this study, we aimed to evaluate how conventional FCM assays can alter dendritic cell (DC) counting when compared with minimal sample perturbation protocols, in terms of absolute cell counting, percentage and stain index (SI) of PBDC subsets. We evaluated the use of three different erythrolytic solutions (CyLyse, OptiLyse C, and Pharm Lyse) on a series of n = 20 peripheral blood specimens for conventional and plasmacytoid DCs detection as well as for leukocyte and basophil detection. Our results showed a significant reduction of leukocytes and specifically, of DCs and basophils in terms of absolute number when using erythrolytic solutions. In conclusion, our study shows that PBDC counting is heavily affected when lysing solutions are used, indicating that these stellate‐shaped populations appear to be more labile.
ISSN:1552-4922
1552-4930
DOI:10.1002/cyto.a.24696