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Halliday, G.M. et al.

Detection of early lymphocyte activation by the fluorescent cell membrane probe N-phenyl-1-naphthylamine.

N-phenyl-1-naphthylamine (NPN) becomes fluorescent after binding to hydrophobic regions of cell membranes. Rat and mouse lymphoid cell suspensions stained with NPN showed changes in fluorescence emission 30 min after stimulation with mitogen or antigen, detected by microfluorimetry. Incubation of NPN-labelled mouse and rat thymocytes with phytohaemagglutinin or concanavalin A ( Con A) caused an increase in mean cell fluorescence intensity. The response to Con A was inhibited by sodium azide and alpha-methyl mannoside. Stimulation of spleen cells from mice by allogeneic cells, or from tumour-bearing rats by tumour antigen consistently resulted in decreased fluorescence. The 'mixed lymphocyte response' detected only certain genetic differences between mouse strains and was proportional to the ratio of stimulator to responder cell number. The NPN staining procedure offers a simple and rapid assay of immunoreactivity and a means of studying early subcellular changes following lymphocyte activation.[1]

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Detection of early lymphocyte activation by the fluorescent cell membrane probe N-phenyl-1-naphthylamine. Halliday, G.M., Nairn, R.C., Pallett, M.A., Rolland, J.M., Ward, H.A. J. Immunol. Methods (1979) [Pubmed]

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