title: Isolation of T cells from mouse oral tissues.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Utilizing mouse models provides excellent immunological and experimental tools to study oral immune responses. However for functional assays, isolating T lymphocytes from the oral tissues has proved to be challenging due to the absence of reliable methods that yield viable cells with consistency. To study adaptive immune cell interactions in the oral mucosal tissues, it is necessary to isolate T cells with a good viability and study them at the single cell level.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We have established an improved method to isolate immune cells, including Tregs and Th17 cells from intra-epithelial niches and lamina propria of the tongue, gingival and palatal tissues in the oral mucosa of mice.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This new method of isolating immune cells from oral tissues will enable us to further our understanding of oral tissue immune cells and their role during oral infections and oral inflammation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, School of Dental Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA. pxp226@case.edu.
authors.forename: Pushpa
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Pandiyan
authors.forename: Natarajan
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Bhaskaran
authors.forename: Yifan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Aaron
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Weinberg