CD molecules

CD molecules are utilized in cell sorting using various methods including flow cytometry.

CD molecules are leucocyte antigens on cell surfaces.

While only a fraction of known CD molecules have been thoroughly characterised, most of them have an important function.

While CD molecules are very useful in defining leukocytes, they are not merely markers on the cell surface.

Wall charts of CD molecules and other cytokines, with colors, arrows from one cell to another, from eBioscience.

Physiologically, CD molecules can act in numerous ways, often acting as receptors or ligands (the molecule that activates a receptor) important to the cell.

List of human clusters of differentiation for a list of CD molecules (such as CD80 and CD86)

Magnetic-activated cell sorting (MACS) is a trademark name for a method for separation of various cell populations depending on their surface antigens (CD molecules).

Two commonly used CD molecules are CD4 and CD8, which are, in general, used as markers for helper and cytotoxic T cells, respectively.

These molecules are defined in combination with CD3+, as some other leukocytes also express these CD molecules (some macrophages express low levels of CD4; dendritic cells express high levels of CD8).