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In some cancers and chronic infections exhausted T cells increase their expression of inhibitory receptors and demonstrate an impaired ability to produce cytokines and to proliferate. Immunological techniques such as MHC class I tetramer staining, intracellular cytokine staining, and CFSE dilution can be used to determine the memory status, inhibitory receptor expression, cytokine production, and proliferative capacity of antigen-specific CD8+ T cells. Here, we describe approaches to define the inhibitory receptor expression, cytokine production, and proliferative capacity of antigen-specific CD8+ T cells from HIV-infected and CMV-infected donors by using polychromatic flow cytometry.
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Boswell, K.L., Yamamoto, T. (2017). Phenotypic and Functional Analysis of Antigen-Specific T Cell Exhaustion. In: Lugli, E. (eds) T-Cell Differentiation. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1514. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6548-9_6
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