Cytotoxic T cells isolated by MACS® Technology remain viable and functional. Therefore, they can be used for further functional studies, such as proliferation assays
and cytotoxicity assays
, but also for the analysis of
in vitro
cytokine production
. CD8 MicroBeads have also been used for the depletion of CD8
+
T cells from human PBMCs for immune reconstitution experiments in SCID mice.