ABSTRACT
0.05), but were highly significant at doses of 100 ?mol/L or above (P
ABSTRACT
Lymphocyte chemiluminescence (Ly-CL) is one of the early events involved in the activation of lymphocytes. This CL is thought to be result ed from the reactive oxygen species (O_2, H_2 O_2, OH, 'O_2) produced by the lymphocytes, the consequent oxidation of luminol and emission of light. In this paper we investigated the experimental condition for ConA-induced human peripheral blood lymphocyte (PBL) CL by using orthogonal design. The effects of new born calf serum (NCS), bovine serum albumin (BSA), temperature and time of cell storage on CL were also studied. The results show that the optimal condition of Ly-CL assay was 1.0 ml PBL suspension (1.4 ? 10~6 cell/ml ), 0.2 ml Luminol solution ( 7 ? 10~(-4)M) and 0.2 ml ConA ( 700 ?g /ml ). The isolated PBL were suspended in phenol red-free Hanks solution containing 0.1% BSA and can be kept for 2 hr at 4℃ before being used without adversely affecting cell viability and CL.