“…The PBMCs were incubated for 15 min in the dark with anti-CD27 Pacific Blue, anti-CD38 Alexa-Fluor 700 (Exbio Praha a.s., Prague, Czech Republic), anti-human IgM FITC or anti-human IgM biotin (BD Pharmingen, San Jose, CA), followed by streptavidin-Qdot 605 (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA), anti-CD21 allophycocyanin (BD Pharmingen), anti-CD24 PE, and anti-CD19 PC7 (Immunotech, Marseille, France). After a final wash with PBS, two million PBMCs from each sample were acquired using a Cyan ADP flow cytometer (Dako, Glostrup, Denmark), as described in Kalina et al (28).…”