Such measurements could be used to
sort different types of cells — to distinguish cancerous cells from healthy ones, for example — or to measure how cells change when exposed to drugs.
Ficoll purified peripheral blood mononuclear
cell pellets
of the
sort used in the current investigation are comprised
of several
different cell types (e.g., CD4, CD8, CD14, CD19, CD56)(Reinius et al., 2012).