We describe a protocol to efficiently isolate skin resident T cells from human skin biopsies. This protocol yields sufficient numbers of viable human skin resident lymphocytes for flow cytometric analysis and ex vivo culture.
He, X., de Oliveira, V. L., Keijsers, R., Joosten, I., Koenen, H. J. Lymphocyte Isolation from Human Skin for Phenotypic Analysis and Ex Vivo Cell Culture. J. Vis. Exp. (110), e52564, doi:10.3791/52564 (2016).