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Eye
Bovine
Bovine
Terlizzi, V. , Kolibabka, M. , Burgess, J. , Hammes, H. and Harmsen, M.
The Pericytic Phenotype of Adipose Tissue-Derived Stromal Cells Is Promoted by NOTCH2. ,
Stem Cells
 36 , 240-251 , 2018
Cells
Retinal endothelial
Enzymes
Pronase : 0.02%
Medium
DMEM
Eye
Chicken
Chick, embryo, 6 day
Jacob Vanessa, Rothermel Andrae, Wolf Peter, Layer Paul G.
Rhodopsin, violet and blue opsin expressions in the chick are highly dependent on tissue and serum conditions ,
Cell Death Differ
 180 , 159-68 , 2005
Cells
Retinal cells
Enzymes
Trypsin : 0.005%
Medium
DMEM/F12
Eye
Monkey
Macaques and baboon
Han ,Y. , Jacoby, R. and Wu, S.
Morphological and Electrophysiological Properties of Dissociated Primate Retinal Cells. ,
Brain Res
 875 , 175 , 2000
Cells
Retinal
Enzymes
Papain : 20-40 u/ml
Deoxyribonuclease I : 400 u/ml
Medium
Ames' solution
Eye
Mouse

Mouse, 2 month

Murenu, E. , Pavlou, M. , Richter, L. , Rapti, K. , Just, S. and Cehajic-Kapetanovic, J.
A Universal Protocol for Isolating Retinal ON Bipolar Cells Across Species via Fluorescence-Activated Cell Sorting. , Mol Ther Methods Clin Dev Vol. 20 , 587-600 , 2021
Enzymes
Papain : 20 u/ml
Medium
EBSS
Eye
Mouse
Mouse
Ortin-Martinez, A. , Tsai, E. , Nickerson, P. , Bergeret, M. , Lu, Y. , Smiley, S. , Comanita, L. and Wallace, V.
A Reinterpretation of Cell Transplantation: GFP Transfer From Donor to Host Photoreceptors. ,
Stem Cells
 35 , 932-939 , 2017
Cells
Retinal
Enzymes
Papain : 20 u/ml
Medium
PBS
Eye
Mouse
Mouse
Wohl, S. , Jorstad, N. , Levine, E. and Reh, T.
Muller Glial microRNAs are Required for the Maintenance of Glial Homeostasis and Retinal Architecture. ,
Nat Commun
 8 , 1603 , 2017
Cells
Retinal
Enzymes
Papain : 20 u/ml
Medium
HBSS
Eye
Mouse
Mouse, C57BL/6
Blandford, S. and Baldridge, W.
The Effect of Glutamate Receptor Agonists on Mouse Retinal Astrocyte [Ca(2+)]i. ,
Biomed Res Int
 2016 , 8178162 , 2016
Cells
Retinal astrocytes
Enzymes
Papain : 16.5 u/ml
Medium
HBSS
Eye
Mouse
Mouse, embryonic and P0
Dvoriantchikova, G. , Perea-Martinez, I. , Pappas, S. , Barry, A. , Danek, D. , Dvoriantchikova, X. , Pelaez, D. and Ivanov, D.
Molecular Characterization of Notch1 Positive Progenitor Cells in the Developing Retina. ,
PLoS ONE
 10 , e0131054 , 2015
Cells
Retinal
Enzymes
Papain : 8 u/ml
Deoxyribonuclease I : 124 u/ml
Medium
DPBS
Eye
Mouse
Mouse
Amadi-Obi, A. , Yu, C. , Liu, X. , Mahdi, R. , Clarke, G. , Nussenblatt, R, Gery, I. , Lee, Y. and Egwuagu, C.
TH17 Cells Contribute to Uveitis and Scleritis and are Expanded by IL-2 and Inhibited by IL-27/STAT1. ,
Nat Med
 13 , 711 , 2007
Cells
Retinal
Enzymes
Medium
RPMI
Eye
Mouse
Mouse, 2-5 month
Maxeiner Stephan, Dedek Karin, Janssen-Bienhold Ulrike, Ammermuller Josef, Brune Hendrik, Kirsch Taryn, Pieper Mario, Degen Joachim, Kruger Olaf, Willecke Klaus, Weiler Reto.
Deletion of connexin45 in mouse retinal neurons disrupts the rod/cone signaling pathway between AII amacrine and ON cone bipolar cells and leads to impaired visual transmission ,
J Neurosci
 25 , 566-76 , 2005
Cells
Mouse retinal and bipolar
Enzymes
Papain : 20 u/ml
Deoxyribonuclease I : 200 u/ml
Medium
HBSS
Eye
Rat

Rat, SD, 1-2 day

Lian, W. , Hu, X. , Zhang, J. , Wu, Y. , Zhao, N. , Ma, H. , He, H. and Lu, Q.
Fucoxanthin Protects Retinal Ganglion Cells and Promotes Parkin-mediated Mitophagy against Glutamate Excitotoxicity. ,
Neuroreport
 34 , 385-394 , 2023
Cells
Retinal ganglion
Enzymes
Papain : 0.5%
Medium
MEM
Eye
Rat
Rat, Wister, 3-30 wk
Cameron, M. , Kekesi, O. , Morley, J. , Tapson, J. , Breen, P. , Van Schaik, A. and Buskila, Y.
Calcium Imaging of AM Dyes Following Prolonged Incubation in Acute Neuronal Tissue. ,
PLoS ONE
 11 , e0155468 , 2016
Cells
Retinal
Enzymes
Papain : 30 u/ml
Medium
EBSS
Tumor
Human
Human
Ayuso, J. , Vitek, R. , Swick, A. , Skala, M. , Wisinski, K. , Kimple, R. , Lambert, P. and Beebe, D.
Effects of Culture Method on Response to EGFR Therapy in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma Cells ,
Sci Rep
 9 , 12480 , 2019
Cells
Fibroblasts
Enzymes
Medium
FM Fibroblast media
Tumor
Human
Human, 25-81 yr
Volovitz, I, Shapira, N. , Ezer, H. , Gafni, A. , Lustgarten, M. , Alter, T. , Ben-Horin, I. , Barzilai, O. , Shahar, T. , Kanner, A. , Fried, I. , Veshchev, I. , Grossman, R. and Ram, Z,
A Non-Aggressive, Highly Efficient, Enzymatic Method for Dissociation of Human Brain-Tumors and Brain-Tissues to Viable Single-Cells. ,
BMC Neurosci
 17 , 30 , 2016
Cells
Brain tumor
Enzymes
Neutral Protease : 0.11 u/ml
Hyaluronidase : 1,000 u/ml
Medium
HBSS
Tumor
Human
Human
Baldan, V. , Griffiths, R. , Hawkins, R. and Gilham, D
Efficient and Reproducible Generation of Tumour-Infiltrating Lymphocytes for Renal Cell Carcinoma ,
Br J Cancer
 112 , 1510 , 2015
Cells
Tumour infiltrating lymphocytes
Enzymes
Medium
RPMI 1640
Tumor
Human
Human
Quatromoni, J. , Singhal, S. , Bhojnagarwala, P. , Hancock, W. , Albelda, S. and Eruslanov, E.
An Optimized Dissagregation Method for Human Lung Tumors That Perserves the Phenotype and Function of the Immune Cells ,
J Leukoc Biol
 97 , 201 , 2015
Cells
Lung tumor
Enzymes
Collagenase Type 1 : 45-60 u/ml
Collagenase Type 2 : 15-20 u/ml
Collagenase Type 4 : 45-60 u/ml
Elastase : 0.002%
Medium
DMEM/F12
Tumor
Human
Human
Chou, J. , Fitzgibbon, M. , Mortales, C. , Towlerton, A. , Upton, M. , Yeung, R. , McIntosh, M. and Warren, E.
Phenotypic and Transcriptional Fidelity of Patient-Derived Colon Cancer Xenografts in Immune-Deficient Mice. ,
PLoS ONE
 8 , e79874 , 2013
Cells
Tumor
Enzymes
Medium
DMEM/F12
Tumor
Human
Human
Welte, Y. , Davies, C. , Schafer, R. and Regenbrecht, C.
Patient Derived Cell Culture and Isolation of CD133+ Putative Cancer Stem Cells from Melanoma. ,
J Vis Exp
 73 , e50200 , 2013
Cells
Melanoma
Enzymes
Medium
PBS
Tumor
Human
Human
Hussein, D. , Punjaruk, W. , Storer, L. , Shaw, L. , Othman, R. , Ottoman, R. , Peet, A. , Miller, S. , Bandopadhyay, G. , Heath, R. , Kumari, R. , Bowman, K. , Braker, P. , Rahman, R. , Jones, G. , Watson, S. and Lowe, J.
Pediatric Brain Tumor Cancer Stem Cells: Cell Cycle Dynamics, DNA Repair, and Etoposide Extrusion. ,
Neuro Oncol
 13 , 70-83 , 2011
Cells
Brain tumor
Enzymes
Medium
DMEM/F12
Tumor
Human
Human
Zhou, J, Belov, L. , Solomon, M. , Chan, C. , Clarke, S. and Christopherson, R.
Colorectal Cancer Cell Surface Protein Profiling Using an Antibody Microarray and Fluorescence Multiplexing. ,
J Vis Exp
 55 , e3322 , 2011
Cells
Colorectal cancer
Enzymes
Medium
RPMI 1640
Tumor
Human
Human
Quintana, E. , Shackleton, M. , Foster, H. , Fullen, D. , Sabel, M. , Johnson, T. and Morrison, S.
Phenotypic Heterogeneity Among Tumorigenic Melanoma Cells from Patients that is Reversible and Not Hierarchically Organized. ,
Cancer Cell
 18 , 510 , 2010
Cells
Tumorigenic melanoma
Enzymes
Collagenase Type 4 : 200 u/ml
Trypsin : 0.05%
Deoxyribonuclease I : 50-100 u/ml
Medium
PBS
Tumor
Human
Human
Sauvageot, C. , Weatherbee, J. , Kesari, S. , Winters, S. , Barnes, J. , Dellagatta, J. , Ramakrishna, N. , Stiles, C. , Kung, A. , Kieran, M. and Wen, P.
Efficacy of the HSP90 Inhibitor 17-AAG in Human Glioma Cell Lines and Tumorigenic Glioma Stem Cells. , Neuro Oncol Vol. 11 , 109 , 2009
Cells
Tumor
Enzymes
Medium
see reference
Tumor
Mouse

Mouse

Nahar, S. , Huang, Y. , Nagy, B. , Zebala, J. , Maeda, D. , Rudloff, U. , Oppenheim, J. and And, D
Regression and Eradication of Triple-Negative Breast Carcinoma in 4T1 Mouse Model by Combination Immunotherapies. , Cancers (Basel) Vol. 15 , 2023
Cells
Tumor
Enzymes
Tumor
Mouse
Mouse
Erdreich-Epstein, A. , Singh, A. , Joshi, S. , Vega, F. , Guo, P. , Xu, J. , Groshen, S. , Ye, W. , Millard, M. , Campan, M. , Morales, G. , Garlich, J. , Laird, P. , Seeger, R. , Shimada, H. and Durden, D.
Association of High Microvessel A,B and Low PTEN with Poor Outcome in Stage 3 Neuroblastoma: Rationale for Using First in Class Dual PI3K/BRD4 Inhibitor, SF1126. ,
Oncotarget
 8 , 52193-52210 , 2017
Cells
Tumor derived neutroblastoma
Enzymes
Papain : 10 u/ml
Deoxyribonuclease I : 250 u/ml
Medium
DPBS
Tumor
Mouse
Mouse
Filtjens, J. , Keirsse, J. , Van Ammel, E. , Taveirne, S. , Van Acker, A. , Kerre, T. , Taghon, T. , Vandekerckhove, B. , Plum, J. , Van Ginderachter, J. and Leclercq, G.
Expression of the Inhibitory Ly49E Receptor is Not Critically Involved in the Immune Response Against Cutaneous, Pulmonary or Liver tumours. ,
Sci Rep
 6 , 30564 , 2016
Cells
Tumor
Enzymes
Medium
RPMI-1640
Tumor
Mouse
Mouse
Kitajima, S. , Kohno, S. , Kondoh, A. , Sasaki, N. , Nishimoto, Y. , Li, F. , Mohammed, M. , Muranaka, H. , Nagatani, N. , Suzuki, M. , Kido, Y. and Takahashi, C.
Undifferentiated State Induced by Rb-p53 Double Inactivation in Mouse Thyroid Neuroendocrine Cells and Embryonic Fibroblasts. ,
Stem Cells
 33 , 1657-69 , 2015
Cells
Thyroid tumor
Enzymes
Collagenase Type 1 : 300 u/ml
Hyaluronidase : 100 u/ml
Medium
DMEM
Tumor
Mouse
Mouse
Xiao, L. , McCann, J. and Dudley, A.
Isolation and Culture Expansion of Tumor-specific Endothelial Cells. ,
J Vis Exp
 , e53072 , 2015
Cells
Endothelial
Enzymes
Medium
DMEM
Tumor
Mouse
Mouse
Devaud, C. , Westwood, J. , John, L. , Flynn, J. , Paquet-Fifield, S. , Duong, C. , Yong, C. , Pegram, H. , Stacker, S. , Achen, M. Stewart, T. , Snyder, L. , Teng, M. , Smyth, M. , Darcy, P. and Kershaw, M
Tissues in Different Anatomical Sites can Sculpt and Vary the Tumor Microenvironment to Affect Responses to Therapy. ,
Mol Ther
 22 , 18-27 , 2014
Cells
Tumor
Enzymes
Medium
PBS
Tumor
Mouse
Mouse
Dunleavey, J. , Xiao, L. , Thompson, J. , Kim, M. , Shields, J. , Shelton, S. , Irvin, D. , Brings, V. , Ollila, D. , Brekken, R. , Dayton, P. , Melero-Martin, J. and Dudley, A.
Vascular Channels Formed by Subpopulations of PECAM1+ Melanoma Cells. ,
Nat Commun
 5 , 5200 , 2014
Cells
Tumor
Enzymes
Medium
DMEM
Tumor
Mouse
Mouse
Sharon, Y. , Alon, L. , Glanz, S. , Servais, C. and Erez, N.
Isolation of Normal and Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts from Fresh Tissues by Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorting (FACS). ,
J Vis Exp
 71 , e4425 , 2013
Cells
Fibroblasts
Enzymes
Medium
DMEM
Tumor
Mouse
Mouse
Vaughan, A. , Halbert, C. , Wootton, S. and Miller, A.
Lung Cancer in Mice Induced by the Jaagsiekte Sheep Retrovirus Envelope Protein is not Maintained by Rare Cancer Stem Cells, but Tumorigenicity does Correlate with Wnt Pathway Activation. ,
Mol Cancer Res
 10 , 86 , 2012
Cells
Lung tumor
Enzymes
Neutral Protease : 50 u/ml
Collagenase : 400 u/ml
Medium
DMEM
Tumor
Mouse
Mouse, male
Watkins, S. , Zhu, Z. , Watkins, K. and Hurwitz, A.
Isolation of Immune Cells from Primary Tumors. ,
J Vis Exp
 64 , e3952 , 2012
Cells
Dendritic, macrophages
Enzymes
Collagenase (1 or 4) : 100-200 u/ml
Medium
RPMI
Tumor
Mouse
Mouse
Oliver, T. , Read, T. , Kessler, J. , Mehmeti, A. , Wells, J. , Huynh, T. , Lin, S. and Wechsler-Reya, R.
Loss of Patched and Disruption of Granule Cell Development in a Pre-Neoplastic Stage of Medulloblastoma. ,
Development
 132 , 2425 , 2005
Cells
Granule cell precursors, pre-neoplastic and tumor cells
Enzymes
Papain : 10 u/ml
Deoxyribonuclease I : 250 u/ml
Medium
Neurobasal/B27
Tumor
Mouse
Mouse, 30 week
Berger, M. , Bergers, G. , Arnold, B. , Hammerling, G. and Ganss, R.
Regulator of G-protein Signaling-5 Induction in Pericytes Coincides With Active Vessel Remodeling During Neovascularization ,
Blood
 105 , 1094 , 2005
Cells
Tumor endothelial
Enzymes
Medium
PBS
Tumor
Mouse
Mouse
Bergers Gabriele, Song Steven, Meyer-Morse Nicole, Bergsland Emily, Hanahan Douglas.
Benefits of targeting both pericytes and endothelial cells in the tumor vasculature with kinase inhibitors ,
J Clin Invest
 111 , 1287-95 , 2003
Cells
Pancreatic tumor
Enzymes
Medium
PBS
Tumor
Rat
Rat, adult
Duarte, S. , Momier, D. , Baque, P. , Casanova, V. , Loubat, A. , Samson, M. , Guigonis, J. , Staccini, P. , Saint-Paul, M. , De Lima, M. , Carle, G. and Pierrefite-Carle, V.
Preventive Cancer Stem Cell-Based Vaccination Reduces Liver Metastasis Development in a Rat Colon Carcinoma Syngeneic Model. ,
Stem Cells
 31 , 423-32 , 2013
Cells
Tumor
Enzymes
Medium
DMEM/F12

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.