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Flow cytometry is a set of automated technologies to count and sort cells, by measuring the physical and chemical characteristics of fairly large numbers of cells suspended in a fluid medium. A flow cytometer directs a flow of cells through a narrow tube, and uses lasers and other detection methods to identify and measure cells as they flow through the tube. The technology was developed in the 1970s and entered use in the 1980s, just as the HIV/AIDS epidemic began. During this early period the technology was also referred to as pulse cytophotometry or fluorescent activated cell sorting.

The use of flow cytometry has been used count and measure the CD4+/CD8+ ratio rapidly, replacing manual methods of sorting cells by hand under a microscope.

 

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Page: 2.1 Paul Volberding — The First Patients (HIV/AIDS Research: Its History & Future Meeting)
... been involved in HIV/AIDS since then. I think that technology, and antibodies, and immunology, and flow cytometry that existed at that time also helped us to make practice much more rapidly ...
Apr 27, 2021
Page: 5.5 Andrew Rice — Mechanism of tat Transactivation (HIV/AIDS Research: Its History & Future Meeting)
... up that in primary cells infected with HIV, 00:26:00 if you do a flow cytometry analysis, the cells with the highest levels of p24 (capsid protein) have the highest levels ...
Apr 27, 2021

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