Lymphocyte Biology Section, Laboratory of Systems Biology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Immunity. 2012 Aug 24;37(2):364-76. doi: 10.1016/j.immuni.2012.07.011. Epub 2012 Aug 2.
Flow cytometry allows highly quantitative analysis of complex dissociated populations at the cost of neglecting their tissue localization. In contrast, conventional microscopy methods provide spatial information, but visualization and quantification of cellular subsets defined by complex phenotypic marker combinations is challenging. Here, we describe an analytical microscopy method, "histo-cytometry," for visualizing and quantifying phenotypically complex cell populations directly in tissue sections. This technology is based on multiplexed antibody staining, tiled high-resolution confocal microscopy, voxel gating, volumetric cell rendering, and quantitative analysis. We have tested this technology on various innate and adaptive immune populations in murine lymph nodes (LNs) and were able to identify complex cellular subsets and phenotypes, achieving quantitatively similar results to flow cytometry, while also gathering cellular positional information. Here, we employ histo-cytometry to describe the spatial segregation of resident and migratory dendritic cell subsets into specialized microanatomical domains, suggesting an unexpected LN demarcation into discrete functional compartments.
流式细胞术可以在忽略组织定位的情况下对复杂的离散群体进行高度定量分析。相比之下,传统的显微镜方法提供空间信息,但可视化和量化具有复杂表型标记组合的细胞亚群具有挑战性。在这里,我们描述了一种分析显微镜方法,“组织细胞计量术”,用于直接在组织切片中可视化和量化表型复杂的细胞群体。这项技术基于多重抗体染色、平铺高分辨率共聚焦显微镜、体素门控、体积细胞渲染和定量分析。我们已经在小鼠淋巴结 (LN) 中的各种固有和适应性免疫群体上测试了这项技术,能够识别复杂的细胞亚群和表型,获得与流式细胞术定量相似的结果,同时还收集细胞位置信息。在这里,我们使用组织细胞计量术来描述驻留和迁移树突状细胞亚群到专门的微解剖结构域中的空间分离,这表明 LN 被意外地划分为离散的功能隔室。
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