I'm working with primary human synovial fluid cells (neutrophils, monocytes, etc) and PBMCs. The PBMCs do great with my typical freezing and staining protocol, but the synovial fluid cells are far less hardy. Viability after thawing is 50% on a good day, and they also seem to clump/lyse at the fixation step. I imagine it's because these cells are more fragile due to the extravasation into unfriendly synovial fluid environments.

Anyone have any tips for extra ways to protect fragile cells? I'm using 90%FBS 10% DMSO for freeze media, and Thermofisher Fix & Perm kit.

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