Spleen cells were harvested from Balb/c mice and red blood cells were dissolved with red blood cell lysis buffer (Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China). After repeated centrifugation and washing, the remaining mononuclear cells were re-suspended at a density of 1 × 107/ml in a cryogenic vial by CELLBANKER 2 (Nippon Zenyaku Kogyo Co., Ltd, Koriyama, Japan). The cells were cryopreserved as follows: 4°C for 3 h, -20°C for 6 h, and -80°C for 2 days stored in liquid nitrogen, and then recovered at 39°C for 5 min, as previously described [20 (link)].
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