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ArticleImmunoHorizons2023

Side-by-Side Comparison of Compensation Beads Used in Polychromatic Flow Cytometry.

Debajit Bhowmick, Sara K Lowe, Michelle L Ratliff

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Article in ImmunoHorizons, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 26% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Optimized cardiac leukocyte isolation for flow cytometry enumeration and sorting.American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology · 2026
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  4. Spectral Flow Cytometry: The Current State and Future of the Technology.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  6. Flow Cytometric MRD Detection in Selected Mature B-Cell Malignancies.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Debajit BhowmickFlow Cytometry Facility, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC.ORCID 0000-0002-4905-569X
Sara K LoweDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC.
Michelle L RatliffDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC.ORCID 0000-0002-3923-7342
East Carolina University · US

Funding

Role of ARID3a in aging human hematopoietic progenitor cellsR00AG055717 · NIA · EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY · PI RATLIFF, MICHELLE LEIGH · 2020 to 2022
$734k
Cell Sorter Grant for ECU Flow Cytometry Core FacilityS10OD021615 · OD · EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY · PI GOWDY, KYMBERLY MAE · 2016 to 2016
$509k
Role of ARID3a in aging human hematopoietic progenitor cellsK99AG055717 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HLTH SCIENCES CTR · PI RATLIFF, MICHELLE LEIGH · 2017 to 2018
$189k
NIA NIH HHS K99 AG055717NIA NIH HHS R00 AG055717NIH HHS S10 OD021615
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Compensation or unmixing is essential in analyzing multiparameter flow cytometry data. Errors in data correction, either by compensation or unmixing, can completely change the outcome or mislead the researchers. Owing to limited cell numbers, researchers often use synthetic beads to generate the required single stains for the necessary calculation. In this study, the capacity of synthetic beads to influence data correction is evaluated. Corrected data for human peripheral blood cells were generated using cell-based compensation from the same cells or bead-based compensation to identify differences between the methods. These data suggest that correction with beads on full-spectrum and conventional cytometers does not always follow the basic flow compensation/unmixing expectations and alters the data. Overall, the best approach for bead-based correction for an experiment is to evaluate which beads and fluorochromes are most accurately compensated/unmixed.

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Fluorescent DyesCell CountFlow CytometryHumansStaining and LabelingFluorescent Dyes

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PMID38055568
PMCPMC10759156
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