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Barthel, E. , Speer, A. , Levin, D. , Sala, F. , Hou, X. , Torashima, Y. , Wigfall, C. and Grikscheit, T.
Tissue Engineering of the Intestine in a Murine Model. ,
J Vis Exp
 70 , e4279 , 2012
Cells
Intestinal organoids
Enzymes
Collagenase Type 1 : 800 u/ml
Neutral Protease : 0.013%
Medium
DMEM
Pancreas
Bovine
Bovine (Bos taurus)
Sato, T. , Sato, M. , Hudson, E. and Jones, R.
Characterization of Bovine Pancreatic Ductal Cells Isolated by a Perfusion-Digestion Technique ,
In Vitro
 19 , 651 , 1983
Cells
Ductal
Enzymes
Medium
EBSS
Pancreas
Human
Human
Brissova, M. , Haliyur, R. , Saunders, D. , Shrestha, S. , Dai, C. , Blodgett, D. , Bottino, R. , Campbell-Thompson, M. , Aramandla, R. , Poffenberger, G. , Lindner, J. , Pan, F. , von Herrath, M. , Greiner, D. and Shultz, L.
α Cell Function and Gene Expression Are Compromised in Type 1 Diabetes. ,
Cell Rep
 22 , 2667-2676 , 2018
Cells
Islets
Enzymes
Collagenase Type 1 : 1,600u/isolation
Neutral Protease : 200 u/isolation
Deoxyribonuclease I : 12,000 u/isolation
Medium
RPMI
Pancreas
Human
Human
Cane, M. , Sutton, R. and Criddle, D.
Isolation of Human Pancreatic Acinar Cells From Rat and Human Pancreas ,
Pancreapedia
 20 , 1 , 2011
Cells
Acinar
Enzymes
CLSPA : 200 u/ml
Medium
See Reference
Pancreas
Mouse
Mouse, 8-12 week
Huch, M. , Bonfanti, P. , Boj, S. , Sato, T. , Loomans, C. , Van de Wetering, M. , Sojoodi, M. , Li, V. , Schuijers, J. , Gracanin, A. , Ringnalda, F. , Begthel, H. , Hamer, K. , Mulder, J. , Van Es, J. and De Koning, E.
Unlimited In Vitro Expansion of Adult Bi-Potent Pancreas Progenitors Through the Lgr5/R-Spondin Axis. ,
EMBO J
 32 , 2708-21 , 2013
Cells
Pancreas organoid
Enzymes
Neutral Protease : 0.012%
Collagenase : 0.012%
Medium
DMEM
Pancreas
Mouse
Mouse, embryonic
Greggio, C. , De Franceschi, F. , Figueiredo-Larsen, M. , Gobaa, S. , Ranga, A. , Semb, H. , Lutolf, M. and Grapin-Botton, A.
Artificial Three-Dimensional Niches Deconstruct Pancreas Development In Vitro. ,
Development
 140 , 4452-62 , 2013
Cells
Pancreatic progenitor
Enzymes
Neutral Protease : 0.125%
Medium
DMEM
Pancreas
Mouse
Mouse, adult, male
Ji, B. , Gaiser, S. , Chen, X. , Ernst, S. and Logsdon, C.
Intracellular Trypsin Induces Pancreatic Acinar Cell Death but not NF-KappaB Activation. ,
J Biol Chem
 284 , 17488 , 2009
Cells
Ancinar
Enzymes
CLSPA : see reference
Medium
DMEM
Pancreas
Mouse
Mouse, 6-10 month
Wang, Y. , Soyombo, A. , Shcheynikov, N. , Zeng, W. , Dorwart, M. , Marino, C. , Thomas, P. and Muallem, S.
Slc26a6 Regulates CFTR Activity In Vivo to Determine Pancreatic Duct HCO3- Secretion: Relevance to Cystic Fibrosis. ,
EMBO J
 25 , 5049 , 2006
Cells
Pancreatic ductal
Enzymes
CLSPA : 50 u/ml
Hyaluronidase : 400 u/ml
Medium
DMEM
Pancreas
Mouse
Mouse, adult
Voronina, S. , Barrow, S. , Gerasimenko, O. , Petersen, O. and Tepikin, A.
Effects of Secretagogues and Bile Acids on Mitochondrial Membrane Potential of Pancreatic Acinar Cells: Comparison of Different Modes of Evaluating Delta Psi. ,
J Biol Chem
 279 , 27327 , 2004
Cells
Acinar
Enzymes
CLSPA : 200 u/ml
Medium
see reference
Pancreas
Mouse
Mouse, albino, 25 g
Fogarty, K. , Kidd, J. , Tuft, R. and Thorn, P.
A Bimodal Pattern of InsP(3)-Evoked Elementary Ca(2+) Signals in Pancreatic Acinar Cells. ,
Biophys J
 78 , 2298 , 2000
Cells
Acinar
Enzymes
CLSPA : see reference
Medium
see reference
Pancreas
Mouse
Mouse
Toivola, D. , Ku, N. , Ghori, N. , Lowe, A. , Michie, S. and Omary, M.
Effects of Keratin Filament Disruption on Exocrine Pancreas-Stimulated Secretion and Susceptibility to Injury. ,
Exp Cell Res
 255 , 156 , 2000
Cells
Acinar cells and acini
Enzymes
Collagenase Type 1 : see reference
CLSPA : see reference
Medium
see reference
Pancreas
Mouse
Mouse, male, 18-24 g
Burnham DB, Williams JA.
Effects of carbachol, cholecystokinin, and insulin on protein phosphorylation in isolated pancreatic acini ,
J Biol Chem
 257 , 10523-8 , 1982
Cells
Acinar
Enzymes
CLSPA : 70-90 u/ml
Medium
Krebs-Henseleit
Pancreas
Rat
Rat
Williams, J.
Isolation of Rodent Pancreatic Acinar Cells and Acini by Collagenase Digestion ,
Pancreapedia
 , 2010
Cells
Acinar
Enzymes
CLSPA : 100 u/ml
Medium
DMEM
Pancreas
Rat
Rat, SD, male
Ji B, Kopin AS, Logsdon CD.
Species differences between rat and mouse CCKA receptors determine the divergent acinar cell response to the cholecystokinin analog JMV-180 ,
J Biol Chem
 275 , 19115-20 , 2000
Cells
Ancinar
Enzymes
CLSPA : see reference
Medium
DMEM
Pancreas
Rat
Rat
Blinman TA, Gukovsky I, Mouria M, Zaninovic V, Livingston E, Pandol SJ, Gukovskaya AS.
Activation of pancreatic acinar cells on isolation from tissue: cytokine upregulation via p38 MAP kinase ,
Am J Physiol Cell Physiol
 279 , C1993-2003 , 2000
Cells
Pancreatic acini
Enzymes
CLSPA : 30 u/ml
Collagenase Type 4 : 30 u/ml
Medium
M199
Parotid
Mouse
Mouse
Ogawa, M. , Oshima, M. , Imamura, A. , Sekine, Y. , Ishida, K. , Yamashita, K. , Nakajima, K. , Hirayama, M. , Tachikawa, T. and Tsuji, T.
Functional Salivary Gland Regeneration by Transplantation of a Bioengineered Organ Germ. ,
Nat Commun
 4 , 2498 , 2013
Cells
Parotid and sublingual glandular
Enzymes
Neutral Protease : 50 u/ml
Collagenase Type 1 : 100 u/ml
Medium
PBS
Reproductive
Human
Human
Patel, J. , Seppanen, E. , Chong, M. , Yeo, J. , Teo, E. , Chan, J. , Fisk, N. and Khosrotehrani, K.
Prospective Surface Marker-Based Isolation and Expansion of Fetal Endothelial Colony-Forming Cells from Human Term Placenta. ,
Stem Cells Transl Med
 2 , 839-47 , 2013
Cells
Endothelial colony forming
Enzymes
Medium
HBSS
Reproductive
Human
Human
Steigman, S. and Fauza, D.
Isolation of Mesenchymal Stem Cells from Amniotic Fluid and Placenta. ,
Curr Protoc Stem Cell Biol
 Chapter 1 , Unit 1E.2 , 2007
Cells
Mesenchymal stem
Enzymes
Neutral Protease : see reference
Medium
CMF-DPBS
Reproductive
Human
Human
Zhang, S. , Wernig, M. , Duncan, I. , Brustle, O. and Thomson, J.
In Vitro Differentiation of Transplantable Neural Precursors from Human Embryonic Stem Cells ,
Nat Biotechnol
 19 , 1129 , 2001
Cells
Stem, embryonic
Enzymes
Neutral Protease : 0.01% - 0.02%
Medium
DMEM
Reproductive
Mouse
Mouse
Chen, L. , Belton, R. and Nowak, R.
Basigin-Mediated Gene Expression Changes in Mouse Uterine Stromal Cells During Implantation. ,
Endocrinology
 150 , 966 , 2009
Cells
Uterine stomal
Enzymes
Medium
DMEM/F12
Reproductive
Rat
Rat
Jiang, H. , Zhang, Y. , Tian, K. , Wang, B. and Han, S.
Amelioration of Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis Through Transplantation of Placental Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells. ,
Sci Rep
 7 , 41837 , 2017
Cells
Placental mesenchymal
Enzymes
Medium
DMEM
Reproductive
Rat
Rat, SD, female, immature, 26 day
(also rat, pregnant and pseudopregnant)
Tellieria, C. , Ou, J. , Sugino, N. , Ferguson, S. and Gibori, G.
The Expression of Interleukin-6 in the Pregnant Rat Corpus Luteum and Its Regulation by Progesterone and Glucocorticoid ,
Endocrinology
 139 (8) , 3597 , 1998
Cells
Corpus luteum
Enzymes
Neutral Protease : 2.4 u/ml Deoxyribonuclease: 200u/ml
Medium
Serum-free medium
(see reference)
Skin
Canine
Canine
Zheng, Y. , Nace, A. , Chen, W. , Watkins, K. , Sergott, L. , Homan, Y. , Vandeberg, J. , Breen, M. and Stenn, K.
Mature Hair Follicles Generated from Dissociated Cells: A Universal Mechanism of Folliculoneogenesis. ,
Dev Dyn
 239 , 2619-26 , 2010
Cells
Epidermal
Enzymes
Collagenase : 0.35%
Medium
DMEM
Skin
Goat
Goat
Deng, Y. , Hu, J. and Athanasiou, K.
Isolation and Chondroinduction of a Dermis-Isolated, Aggrecan-Sensitive Subpopulation with High Chondrogenic Potential. ,
Arthritis Rheum
 56 , 168 , 2007
Cells
Dermis isolated aggrecan sensitive
Enzymes
Medium
DMEM
Skin
Human

Human

Burja, B. , Paul, D. , Tastanova, A. , Edalat, S. , Gerber, R. , Houtman, M. , Elhai, M. , Bürki, K. , Staeger, R. , Restivo, G. , Lang, R. , Sodin-Semrl, S. , Lakota, K. , Tomšič, M. , Levesque, M. , Distler, O. , Rotar, �. , Robinson, M. and Frank-Bertoncelj, M.
An Optimized Tissue Dissociation Protocol for Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Analysis of Fresh and Cultured Human Skin Biopsies. , Front Cell Dev Biol Vol. 10 , 872688 , 2022
Cells
Skin
Enzymes
Neutral Protease : 2.4 u/ml
Collagenase Type 4 : 1,000 u/ml
Medium
RPMI
Skin
Human
Human
Botting, Ra. , Bertram, K. , Baharlou, H. , Sandgren, K. , Fletcher, J. , Rhodes, J. , Rana, H. , Plasto, T. , Wang, X. , Lim, J. , Barnouti, L. , Kohout, M. , Papadopoulos, T. , Merten, S. , Olbourne, N. and Cunningham, A.
Phenotypic and Functional Consequences of Different Isolation Protocols on Skin Mononuclear Phagocytes. ,
J Leukoc Biol
 101 , 1393-1403 , 2017
Cells
Mononuclear phagocytes
Enzymes
Neutral Protease : 1 u/ml
Collagenase : 200 u/ml
Trypsin : 0.5%
Medium
RPMI-1640
Skin
Human
Human
Chen, Z. , Wang, X. , Jin, T. , Wang, Y. , Hong, C. , Tan, L. , Dai, T. , Wu, L. , Zhuang, Z. and Shi, C.
Increase in the Radioresistance of Normal Skin Fibroblasts but not Tumor Cells by Mechanical Injury. ,
Cell Death Dis
 8 , e2573 , 2017
Cells
Fibroblasts
Enzymes
Medium
DMEM
Skin
Human
Human
Cheuk, S. , Wiken, M. , Blomqvist, L. , Nylen, S. , Talme, T. and Stahle, M.and Eidsmo, L.
Epidermal Th22 and Tc17 Cells Form a Localized Disease Memory in Clinically Healed Psoriasis. ,
J Immunol
 192 , 3111 , 2014
Cells
Skin
Enzymes
Medium
RPMI 1640
Skin
Human
Human
Cerny, D. , Haniffa, M. , Shin, A. , Bigliardi, P. , Tan, B. , Lee, B. , Poidinger, M. , Tan, E. , Ginhoux, F. and Fink, K.
Selective Susceptibility of Human Skin Antigen Presenting Cells to Productive Dengue Virus Infection. ,
PLoS Pathog
 10 , e1004548 , 2014
Cells
Skin
Enzymes
Medium
RPMI
Skin
Human
Human, adult
Nagel, S. , Rohr, F. , Weber, C. , Kier, J. , Siemers, F. , Kruse, C. , Danner, S. , Brandenburger, M. and Matthiessen, A.
Multipotent Nestin-Positive Stem Cells Reside in the Stroma of Human Eccrine and Apocrine Sweat Glands and can be Propagated Robustly In Vitro. ,
PLoS ONE
 8 , e78365 , 2013
Cells
Epidermal stem cells
Enzymes
Neutral Protease : 2 u/ml
Trypsin : 2.5%
Medium
DMEM
Skin
Human
Human
Carriel, V. , Garzon, I. , Jimenez, J. , Oliveira, A. , Arias-Santiago, S. , Campos, A. , Sanchez-Quevedo, M. and Alaminos, M.
Epithelial and Stromal Developmental Patterns in a Novel Substitute of the Human Skin Generated with Fibrin-Agarose Biomaterials. ,
Cells Tissues Organs
 196 , 1-12 , 2012
Cells
Fibroblasts and keratinocytes
Enzymes
Medium
DMEM
Skin
Human
Human
Zheng, Y. , Nace, A. , Chen, W. , Watkins, K. , Sergott, L. , Homan, Y. , Vandeberg, J. , Breen, M. and Stenn, K.
Mature Hair Follicles Generated from Dissociated Cells: A Universal Mechanism of Folliculoneogenesis. ,
Dev Dyn
 239 , 2619-26 , 2010
Cells
Epidermal
Enzymes
Collagenase : 0.35%
Medium
DMEM
Skin
Human
Human
Zhang, Q. , Yamaza, T. , Kelly, AP, Shi, S. , Wang, S. , Brown, J. , Wang, L. , French, S. , Shi, S. and Le, A.
Tumor-like Stem Cells Derived from Human Keloid are Governed by the Inflammatory Niche Driven by IL-17/IL-6 Axis. ,
PLoS ONE
 4 , e7798 , 2009
Cells
Skin and keloid progenitor
Enzymes
Medium
PBS
Skin
Human
Human, 6-12 year
Chen, F. , Zhang, W. , Bi, D. , Liu, W. , Wei, X. , Chen, F. , Zhu, L. , Cui, L. and Cao, Y.
Clonal Analysis of Nestin(-) Vimentin(+) Multipotent Fibroblasts Isolated from Human Dermis. ,
J Cell Sci
 120 , 2875 , 2007
Cells
Dermal fibroblasts
Enzymes
Medium
DMEM
Skin
Human
Human
Yu Hong, Fang Dong, Kumar Suresh M, Li Ling, Nguyen Thiennga K, Acs Geza, Herlyn Meenhard, Xu Xiaowei.
Isolation of a novel population of multipotent adult stem cells from human hair follicles ,
Am J Pathol
 168 , 1879-88 , 2006
Cells
Hair follicular epithelial
Enzymes
Trypsin : 0.25%
Medium
DMEM/F-12
Skin
Human
Human, neonatal
Li, A. , Pouliot, N. , Redvers, R. and Kaur, P.
Extensive tissue-regenerative capacity of neonatal human keratinocytes stem cells and their progeny ,
J Clin Invest
 113 , 390-400 , 2004
Cells
Keratinocytes
Enzymes
Medium
DMEM

Tissue Tables (references, grouped by tissue type and species)

Adipose/Fat
Adrenal
Bone
Brain
Cartilage
Colon
Endothelial
Epithelial
Eye
Heart
Intestine
Kidney
Liver
Lung
Lymph nodes
Mammary
Miscellaneous
Muscle
Neural
Organoids
Pancreas
Parotid
Pituitary
Prostate
Reproductive
Scales
Skin
Spleen
Stem
Thymus
Thyroid/Parathyroid
Tonsil
Tumor
Note: We have not limited the references listed to only those papers using Worthington enzymes. Generally speaking, the tissue dissociation enzymes offered by Worthington can be used interchangeably for most preparations cited.