does this biexponential transformation look strange?

From: Diana Martin <zigra@uga.edu>
Date: Fri Sep 30 2005 - 09:47:46 EST
Hi Flowers - 

I've attached a jpeg with some simple staining but strange 
looking plots.	Setup:	mouse SC from peptide-DC vaccinated 
mice were stimulated 4h with peptide+BFA, then stained for 
anti-CD62L FITC and anti-CD8 PE, then fix/permed and stained 
with anti-IFNg APC.  Cells were immediately run on a 
FACSCalibur and analyzed using FlowJo (compensation done on 
FlowJo as well).  On the jpeg I have my compensation controls 
(top row), lymphocyte gate on FSC v SSC (middle row) and CD8 
PE v IFNg APC on the bottom row (IFNg APC FMO on the left, 
actual IFNg stain on the right).  For simplicity, I did not 
inculde the numerous biological controls that were run, but 
all of the PE v APC plots look similar.  I also didn't 
include the PE v FITC, which looks fine.  My question:	why 
does it look as though the APC fluorescence on the PE+ 
population is so much lower than that of the PEneg 
population?  Did I do something wrong?	To me, this data is 
interpretable, but I don't know how to explain the low APC 
fluorescence of my PE+population.  Any comments would be 
appreciated.  Thanks

Diana 
Diana L. Martin
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases
University of Georgia
Athens, GA  30602
(706)542-3396

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