This protocol details a method to isolate antigen presenting cells from human thymus via different steps of enzymatic digestion of the tissue followed by density centrifugation of the single cell suspension and finally magnetic and/or FACS sorting of the cell populations of interest.
Stoeckle, C., Rota, I. A., Tolosa, E., Haller, C., Melms, A., Adamopoulou, E. Isolation of Myeloid Dendritic Cells and Epithelial Cells from Human Thymus. J. Vis. Exp. (79), e50951, doi:10.3791/50951 (2013).