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Nanoparticles are increasingly being utilized for in vivo applications, where they are implemented as carriers for drugs, contrast agents for noninvasive medical imaging, or delivery vehicles for macromolecular agents such as DNA or proteins. However, they possess many physical and chemical properties that cause them to become rapidly recognized by the immune system as a foreign body, leading to their clearance and elimination, even before they may accumulate to critical concentrations at anatomic and cellular sites of action. The techniques described in this chapter aim to identify potential interactions of test, fluorescently tagged nano-formulations with circulating immune cells, with the goal of predicting potentially problematic formulations that may be rapidly cleared following in vivo administration. The techniques make use of flow cytometry, a method commonly used in immunology to phenotype and identify immune cell subtypes based on their expression of signature surface marker profiles.
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Yu, S.S. (2017). Evaluating Nanoparticle Binding to Blood Compartment Immune Cells in High-Throughput with Flow Cytometry. In: Petrosko, S., Day, E. (eds) Biomedical Nanotechnology. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1570. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6840-4_9
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