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Neural
Avian
Quail and Chicken, embryonic
Rollo, B. , Zhang, D. , Simkin, J. , Menheniott, T. and Newgreen, D.
Why are Enteric Ganglia so Small? Role of Differential Adhesion of Enteric Neurons and Enteric Neural Crest Cells. ,
F1000Res
 4 , 113 , 2015
Cells
Midgut DRG
Enzymes
Medium
Ham's F12
Neural
Bovine
Bovine
(also rat)
Trifaro, J. , Tang, R. and Novas, M.
Monolayer Co-Culture of Rat Heart Cells and Bovine Adrenal Chromaffin Paraneurons ,
In Vitro Cell Dev Biol
 26 , 335 , 1990
Cells
Heart
Adrenal chromaffin
Paraneurons
Enzymes
Trypsin : 0.06%
Medium
25mM HEPES buffered Locke's solution, CMF
Neural
Bovine
Calf
(also lamb)
Poduslo, S. , Miller, K. and McKhann, G.
Metabolic Properties of Maintained Oligodendroglia Purified from Brain ,
J Biol Chem
 253 , 1592 , 1978
Cells
Oligodendroglia
Neural
Enzymes
Trypsin : 0.1%
Medium
(see reference)
Neural
Chicken
Chick, White Leghorn, embryos
Watt, P. , Mullen, Y. , Benhamou, P. , Hober, C. , Nomura, Y. , Watanabe, Y. , Passaro, E. , Zinner, M. and Brunicardi, F.
Simplified Semiautomated Method For Isolating Islets From the Human Pancreas ,
Transplant Proc
 26 (2) , 582 , 1994
Cells
Islets
Enzymes
Trypsin : Trypsin: 0.125-0.25%
Collagenase : 0.2%
Deoxyribonuclease I : 200 u/ml
Medium
Eurocollins solution
Neural
Chicken
Chick, embryo, 10-14 day
Moyer, M. , Bullrich, F. and Sheffield, J.
Emergence of Flat Cells From Glia in Stationary Cultures of Embryonic Chick Neural Retina ,
In Vitro Cell Dev Biol
 26 , 1073 , 1990
Cells
Flat, retina
Enzymes
Trypsin : 0.1%
Medium
Tyrode's solution, CMF
Neural
Chicken
Chick, White Leghorn, embryo
(also rat, SD, embryo)
Schnaar, R. and Schaffner, A.
Separation of cell types from embryonic chicken and rat spinal cord: characterization of motoneuron-enriched fractions ,
J Neurosci
 1 , 204 , 1981
Cells
Spinal cord
Enzymes
Trypsin : 0.05%
Medium
Phosphate buffer
(see reference)
Neural
Chicken
Chick
Choi, D. and Fiscbach, G.
GABA Conductance of Chick Spinal Cord and Dorsal Root Ganglion Neurons in Cell Culture ,
J Neurophysiol
 45 , 605 , 1981
Cells
Dorsal root ganglion neurons
Spinal cord
Enzymes
Trypsin : 0.1%
Medium
Puck's saline, CMF
Neural
Chicken
Chick, White Leghorn embryo, 8 day
Bottenstein, J. , Skaper, S. , Varon, S. and Sato, G.
Selective Survival of Neurons from Chick Embryo Sensory Ganglionic Dissociates Utilizing Serum-Free Supplemented Medium ,
Exp Cell Res
 125 , 183 , 1980
Cells
Neurons, ganglia
Enzymes
Trypsin : 0.25%
Medium
HBSS, CMF
Neural
Chicken
Chicken, White Leghorn, fertile eggs
Tuttle, J. , Suszkiw, J. and Ard, M.
Long-Term Survival and Development of Dissociated Parasympathetic Neurons in Culture ,
Brain Res
 183 , 161 , 1980
Cells
Ciliary ganglion neurons
Enzymes
Trypsin : 0.25%
Medium
Eagle's MEM
Neural
Chicken
Chick embryos
McCarthy, K. and Partlow, L.
Preparation of Pure Neuronal and Non-Neuronal Cultures From Embryonic Chick Sympathetic Ganglia: A New Method Based on Both Differential Cell Adhesiveness and the Formation of Homotypic Neuronal Aggregates ,
Brain Res
 114 , 391 , 1976
Cells
Ganglion chains, sympathetic ganglia
Enzymes
Trypsin : 0.25%
Medium
Krebs Phosphosaline
Neural
Chicken
Chick, White Leghorn, embryos, 7 day
Wiseman, L. and Hammond, W.
The Reacquisition of Cell Adhesiveness Following Tissue Disaggregation by Eleven Different Agents ,
J Exp Zool
 197 , 429 , 1976
Cells
Neural retina
Enzymes
Collagenase : 0.25%
Elastase : 0.2%
Hyaluronidase : 1.0%
Papain : 1.0%
Protease : 0.1%
Trypsin : 0.05%
Medium
HBSS
Neural
Fish
Zebrafish, Dania rerio, embryo
Won, Y. , Ono, F. and Ikeda, S.
Identification and Modulation of Voltage-Gated Ca2+ Currents in Zebrafish Rohon-Beard Neurons. ,
J Neurophysiol
 105 , 442-53 , 2011
Cells
Rohon-Beard neurons
Enzymes
Trypsin : 0.2%
Medium
L-15/Hepes
Neural
Fish
Black ghose knige fish, adult (Apteronotus albifrons)
Anderson, M.J.
Differences in Growth of Neurons from Normal and Regenerated Teleost Spinal Cord in vitro ,
In Vitro Cell Dev Biol
 29A , 145 , 1993
Cells
Neurons, spinal cord
Enzymes
Trypsin : 0.4%
Medium
PBS, CMF
Neural
Guinea-Pig
Guinea-pig, newborn
Jessen, K, McConnell, J. , Purves, R. , Burnstock, G. and Chamley-Campbell, J.
Tissue Culture of Mammalian Enteric Neurons ,
Brain Res
 152 , 573 , 1978
Cells
Neuron, enteric
Enzymes
Trypsin : 0.125%
Medium
Medium 199
Neural
Hamster
Hamster, male
Liman ER.
Regulation by voltage and adenine nucleotides of a Ca2+-activated cation channel from hamster vomeronasal sensory neurons ,
J Physiol
 548 , 777 , 2003
Cells
Vomeronasal organ neurons
Enzymes
Trypsin : 0.02%
Medium
PBS
Neural
Human

Human

David, E. , Yousuf, M. , Mei, H. , Jain, A. , Krishnagiri, S. , Elahi, H. , Venkatesan, R. , Srikanth, K. , Dussor, G. , Dalva, M. and Price, T.
Ephrin-B2 promotes Nociceptive Plasticity and Hyperalgesic Priming Through EphB2-MNK-eIF4E Signaling in Both Mice and Humans. , Pharmacol Res Vol. 206 , 107284 , 2024
Cells
DRG neurons
Enzymes
Medium
HBSS
Neural
Human

Human

Park, S. , Eber, M. , Fonseca, M. , Patel, C. , Cunnane, K. , Ding, H. , Hsu, F. and Peters, C.
Usefulness of the Measurement of Neurite Outgrowth of Primary Sensory Neurons to Study Cancer-Related Painful Complications. ,
Biochem Pharmacol
 188 , 114520 , 2021
Cells
Dorsal root ganglia
Neural
Enzymes
Papain : 30 u/ml
Medium
HBSS
Neural
Human
Human
Panchision David M, Chen Hui-Ling, Pistollato Francesca, Papini Daniela, Ni Hsiao-Tzu, Hawley Teresa S.
Optimized flow cytometric analysis of central nervous system tissue reveals novel functional relationships among cells expressing CD133, CD15, and CD24 ,
Stem Cells
 25 , 1560-70 , 2007
Cells
Neural, various
Enzymes
Papain : 12 u/ml
Collagenase/Dispase : see reference
Trypsin : see reference
Medium
see reference
Neural
Human
Human, 9 month
Dietrich J, Lacagnina M, Gass D, Richfield E, Mayer-Proschel M, Noble M, Torres C, Proschel C.
EIF2B5 mutations compromise GFAP+ astrocyte generation in vanishing white matter leukodystrophy ,
Nat Med
 11 , 277 , 2005
Cells
Neurons
Enzymes
Papain : 0.07 u/ml
Neutral Protease : 1 mg/ml
Medium
DMEM/F12
Neural
Human
Human, 26 week
Fuja TJ, Schwartz PH, Darcy D, Bryant PJ.
Asymmetric localization of LGN but not AGS3, two homologs of Drosophila pins, in dividing human neural progenitor cells ,
J Neurosci Res
 75 , 782 , 2004
Cells
Neural progenitor cells
Enzymes
Papain : 2.5 u/ml
Deoxyribonuclease I : 250 u/ml
Neutral Protease : 1 u/ml
Medium
DMEM/F-12
Neural
Human
Human, 5-65 years
Von Recum, H. , Okano, T. , Kim, S. and Bernstein, P.
Maintenance of Retinoid Metabolism in Human Retinal Pigment Epithelium Cell Culture ,
Exp Eye Res
 69 , 97 , 1999
Cells
Retinal pigment epithelial (RPE)
Enzymes
Trypsin : 0.25%
Medium
HBSS
Neural
Human
Human
Dib-Hajj SD, Tyrrell L, Cummins TR, Black JA, Wood PM, Waxman SG.
Two tetrodotoxin-resistant sodium channels in human dorsal root ganglion neurons ,
F.E.B.S. Lett.
 462 , 117 , 1999
Cells
Dorsal root ganglion neurons
Enzymes
Medium
DMEM/F-12
Neural
Insect
Drosophila
Sanchez-Soriano, N. , Bottenberg, W. , Fiala, A. , Haessler, U. , Kerassoviti, A. , Knust, E. , Lohr, R. and Prokop, A.
Are Dendrites in Drosophila Homologous to Vertebrate Dendrites? ,
Dev Biol
 288 , 126 , 2005
Cells
Dendrites
Enzymes
Collagenase : 0.05%
Medium
HBSS
Neural
Insect
Gryllus Bimaculatus
Kloppenburg, P. and Horner, M.
Voltage-Activated Currents in Identified Giant Interneurons Isolated from Adult Crickets Gryllus Bimaculatus ,
J Exp Biol
 201 (Pt 17) , 2529 , 1998
Cells
Giant interneurons
Enzymes
Collagenase : 0.05%
Medium
Leibovitz's L15
Neural
Monkey

Rhesus macaque, female

Park, S. , Eber, M. , Fonseca, M. , Patel, C. , Cunnane, K. , Ding, H. , Hsu, F. and Peters, C.
Usefulness of the Measurement of Neurite Outgrowth of Primary Sensory Neurons to Study Cancer-Related Painful Complications. ,
Biochem Pharmacol
 188 , 114520 , 2021
Cells
Dorsal root ganglia
Neural
Enzymes
Papain : 30 u/ml
Medium
HBSS
Neural
Mouse

Mouse, 4-6 week

David, E. , Yousuf, M. , Mei, H. , Jain, A. , Krishnagiri, S. , Elahi, H. , Venkatesan, R. , Srikanth, K. , Dussor, G. , Dalva, M. and Price, T.
Ephrin-B2 promotes Nociceptive Plasticity and Hyperalgesic Priming Through EphB2-MNK-eIF4E Signaling in Both Mice and Humans. , Pharmacol Res Vol. 206 , 107284 , 2024
Cells
DRG neurons
Enzymes
Medium
HBSS
Neural
Mouse
Mouse, adult
Weng, Y. , An, R. , Cassin, J. , Joseph, J. , Mi, R. , Wang, C. , Zhong, C. , Jin, S. , Pfeifer, G. , Bellacosa, A. , Dong, X. , Hoke, A. , He, Z. , Song, H. and Ming, G.
An Intrinsic Epigenetic Barrier for Functional Axon Regeneration ,
Neuron
 94 , 337 , 2018
Cells
Lumbar DRG
Enzymes
Collagenase Type 2 : 200 u/ml
Neutral Protease : 2.5 u/ml
Medium
HBSS
Neural
Mouse
Mouse
Xu, W. , Sachewsky, N. , Azimi, A. , Hung, M. , Gappasov, A. and Morshead, C.
Myelin Basic Protein Regulates Primitive and Definitive Neural Stem Cell Proliferation from the Adult Spinal Cord. ,
Stem Cells
 35 , 485-496 , 2017
Cells
Neurospheres
Enzymes
Trypsin : 0.13%
Hyaluronidase : 0.08%
Medium
Neurobasal A
Neural
Mouse
Mouse, day 2
Clements, M. , Byrne, E. , Camarillo Guerrero, L. , Cattin, A. , Zakka, L. , Ashraf, A. , Burden, J. , Khadayate, S. , Lloyd, A. , Marguerat, S. and Parrinello, S.
The Wound Microenvironment Reprograms Schwann Cells to Invasive Mesenchymal-like Cells to Drive Peripheral Nerve Regeneration. ,
Neuron
 96 , 98-114.e7 , 2017
Cells
Schwann
Enzymes
Medium
DMEM
Neural
Mouse
Mouse, 2-3 month
Sun, H. , Tsai, W. , Li, B. , Tao, W. , Chen, P. and Rubart, M.
Voltage-Induced Calcium Release in Postganglionic Sympathetic Neurons in Adult Mice. ,
PLoS ONE
 11 , e0148962 , 2016
Cells
Sympathetic neurons
Enzymes
Papain : 10 u/ml
Medium
EBSS
Neural
Mouse
Mouse, neonatal
Stettner, M. , Lohmann, B. , Wolffram, K. , Weinberger, J. , Dehmel, T. , Hartung, H. , Mausberg, A. and Kieseier, B.
Interleukin-17 Impedes Schwann Cell-Mediated Myelination. ,
J Neuroinflammation
 11 , 63 , 2014
Cells
Schwann cells
Enzymes
Collagenase : 0.05-0.1%
Trypsin : 0.125-0.25%
Medium
DMEM
Neural
Mouse
Mouse
Lee, B. , Cho, H. , Jung, J. , Yang, Y. , Yang, D. and Oh, U.
Anoctamin 1 Contributes to Inflammatory and Nerve-Injury Induced Hypersensitivity. ,
Mol Pain
 10 , 5 , 2014
Cells
DRG neurons
Enzymes
Trypsin : 0.25%
Medium
DMEM/F-12
Neural
Mouse
Mouse
Zhang, Y. and Hu, W.
Mouse Enteric Neuronal Cell Culture. ,
Methods Mol Biol
 1078 , 55-63 , 2013
Cells
Enteric neurons
Enzymes
Trypsin : 0.05%
Deoxyribonuclease I : 400 u/ml
Medium
DMEM/F12
Neural
Mouse
Mouse, 4-6 week
Masaki, T. , Qu, J. , Cholewa-Waclaw, J. , Burr, K. , Raaum, R. and Rambukkana, A.
Reprogramming Adult Schwann Cells to Stem Cell-Like Cells by Leprosy Bacilli Promotes Dissemination of Infection. ,
Cell
 152 , 51 , 2013
Cells
Schwann
Enzymes
Trypsin : 0.125%
Medium
DMEM
Neural
Mouse
Mouse, 6-8 week
Babona-Pilipos, R. , Popovic, M. and Morshead, C.
A Galvanotaxis Assay for Analysis of Neural Precursor Cell Migration Kinetics in an Externally Applied Direct Current Electric Field. ,
J Vis Exp
 68 , e4193 , 2012
Cells
Neural precursors
Enzymes
Trypsin : 0.13%
Hyaluronidase : 0.08%
Medium
see reference
Neural
Mouse
Mouse, 6-8 week
Bracko, O. , Singer, T. , Aigner, S. , Knobloch, M. , Winner, B. , Ray, J. , Clemenson, G. , Suh, H. , Couillard-Despres, S. , Aigner, L. , Gage, F. and Jessberger, S.
Gene Expression Profiling of Neural Stem Cells and their Neuronal Progeny Reveals IGF2 as a Regulator of Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis. ,
J Neurosci
 32 , 3376-87 , 2012
Cells
Neural stem cells
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.