Immunology Core Services
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The Immunology Core provides a wide range of services and reagents to benefit the immunological research of the Penn CFAR Community. Services are provided by facilities in both the University of Pennsylvania and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute and are housed at several sites. Services include:
- Primary Cell Purification (Riley Lab, 8th Floor Similow Center for Translational Research)
- Freshly isolated primary PBMCs, CD4, CD8, T cells, NK, monocytes and B cells
- CCR5 deficient T cells and monocytes from Δ32 donors
- Standard Immunological Assays (12th Floor Abramson Research Center, CHOP)
- Cell Based Assays
- Flow Based Assays and Services
- GLP-Like Assay Development (Boyer Lab, 7th Floor Stellar Chance)
- Flow Cytometry
- Intracellular Cytokine Staining
- Proliferation Assay
- CFSE dilution
- ELISPOT
- Sample acquisition and storage
- BSL-3 Cell Sorting Facility