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Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology, 01 1996, 30-36, Vol 3, No. 1
Copyright © 1996 by the American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Multiparametric immunophenotyping of B cells in peripheral blood of healthy adults by flow cytometry

HG Hoffkes, G Schmidtke, M Uppenkamp and U Schmucker
Department of Medicine, University of Essen, Germany.

The investigation of patients suffering from malignant lymphomas of the B-cell type requires flow cytometric immunophenotyping. Several reports described the expression of almost all B lineage antigens on normal and abnormal B lymphocytes. Thus, immunophenotyping of lymphomas must be interpreted in the context of the reference values obtained for healthy control individuals. For this purpose multiparametric flow cytometric analysis offers the unique feature for lymphocyte subset analysis. In the present study B lymphocytes in the peripheral blood of healthy adults were investigated by multiparametric flow cytometric immunophenotyping for the detection of the frequency (in percent) of antigens provided by the revised European-American classification of lymphoid neoplasms (REAL) classification. Thus, 84 healthy adults were investigated and grouped by age (average ages were as follows: group 1, 25.38 years; group 2, 33.86 years; group 3, 44.17 years; group 4, 55.67 years; group 5, 66.67 years). Analysis was done for surface immunoglobulins (kappa and lambda chains of immunoglobulin M [IgM] and IgD) as well as CD10, CD11c, CD23, CD38, CD103, FMC-7, and B-B4. Three- color immunophenotyping was performed for kappa/CD19/CD5, lambda/CD19/CD5, surface IgM/surface IgD/CD19, FMC-7/CD19/CD5, CD103/CD11c/CD19, CD10/CD23/CD19, and CD38/B-B4/CD19 by live gating of CD19+ events (n = 2,000). Although some numerical differences could be obtained for the different groups, statistical differences (P < 0.005) could only be obtained for the CD19+/CD5+ B-cell subset, which was decreased in the elderly patients (group 5). The established two-color and three-color stainings will serve as a basis for future multiparametric immunophenotyping of abnormal lymphocytes (e.g., for patients suffering from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of the B-cell type).