Methods of identifying central memory T cells and obtaining antigen-specific T cell populations

摘要

The invention provides a method of obtaining a population of antigen-specific T cells comprising: (i) dividing PBMCs from peripheral blood of a host into more than one sub-population; (ii) contacting the PBMCs of each sub-population with an antigen; (iii) obtaining a sample of the contacted PBMCs from each sub-population; (iv) measuring the quantity of 1) IL-2 mRNA and 2) IFN-