The Clinical Chemistry laboratory of Karolinska University Hospital measured the absolute numbers of leukocytes, neutrophils, eosinophils, basophils, and monocytes per liter of peripheral blood using XE Sysmex flow cytometry-based analysis. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) were stained freshly using the following antibodies (clones): CD45RA (B56), TcRgd (B1), HLA-DR (L43), CD4 (OKT4), CD138 (ID4 or DL-101), CD19 (HIB19), NKp44 (P44-8), CD16 (3G8), CD69 (FN50), CD28 (CD28.2), CD45 (HI30), IL21R (2G1-K12), TREM-1 (TREM-26) all from Biolegend, CD3 (UCHT1) and NKG2A (Z199.1) from Beckman Coulter, IgD (IA6-2), CD14 (Mphi 9), CD27 (M-T271), CD56 (BI59) from Beckton Dickinson, NKG2D (1D11) from eBioscience. The definition of major cell populations was as described in35 (link), and performed at the Division of Rheumatology in the Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Institutet.
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