Isolation or depletion of CD4
+ T helper cells is performed in many different fields of research, such as infectious diseases, autoimmune diseases, allergy, asthma, and tumor immunology. T helper cells isolated by MACS® Technology remain viable and functional. Therefore, they can be used for further functional studies, such as proliferation assays
10 and cytotoxicity assays
3 , as well as for the generation of T cell lines
9 . CD4
+ T cells purified with CD4 MicroBeads have also been cultured and analyzed for
in vitro cytokine production.
4 Furthermore, they have been used in co‑culture experiments, e.g., for allogeneic stimulation by dendritic cells
1 or for B cell activation
2 .