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Adrenal
Mouse
Mouse, 8-10 week
Kolski-Andreaco, A. , Cai, H. , Currle, D. , Chandy, K. and Chow, R.
Mouse Adrenal Chromaffin Cell Isolation. ,
J Vis Exp
 2 , 129 , 2007
Cells
Chromaffin
Enzymes
Papain : 40 u/ml
Medium
DMEM
Adrenal
Mouse
Mouse, embryonic
Tian Jin-Hua, Wu Zheng-Xing, Unzicker Michael, Lu Li, Cai Qian, Li Cuiling, Schirra Claudia, Matti Ulf, Stevens David, Deng Chuxia, Rettig Jens, Sheng Zu-Hang.
The role of Snapin in neurosecretion: snapin knock-out mice exhibit impaired calcium-dependent exocytosis of large dense-core vesicles in chromaffin cells ,
J Neurosci
 25 , 10546-55 , 2005
Cells
Chromafin cells
Enzymes
Papain : 20-25 u/ml
Medium
DMEM
Bone
Mouse
Mouse, 2-5 day
Taylor, S. , Shah, M. and Orriss, I.
Generation of Rodent and Human Osteoblasts. ,
Bonekey Rep
 3 , 585 , 2014
Cells
Osteoblasts
Enzymes
Trypsin : 0.25%-1.0%
Medium
DMEM
Bone
Mouse
Mouse, BALB/c
Takanashi, H. , Matsuishi, T. and Yoshizato, K.
Establishment and Characterization of Stromal Cell Lines That Support Differentiation of Murine Hematopoietic Blast Cells into Osteoblast-like Cells ,
In Vitro Cell Dev Biol
 30A , 384 , 1994
Cells
Osteoblast-like Cells
Stromal Cell Lines
Hematopoietic Blast Cells
Enzymes
Trypsin : 0.1%
Medium
Eagle's MEM
Brain
Mouse
Adult and neonatal
Calvo, Belen, Rubio, F. , Fernandez, M. and Tranque, P.
Dissociation of Neonatal and Adult Mice Brain for Simultaneous Analysis of Microglia, Astrocytes and Infiltrating Lymphocytes by Flow Cytometry. , IBRO Rep Vol. 8 , 36-47 , 2020
Cells
Microglia, astrocytes, lymphocytes
Enzymes
Collagenase Type 2 : 120 u/ml
Papain : 20 u/ml
Neutral Protease : 1.2 u/ml
Medium
EBSS
Brain
Mouse
Mouse
Kramer, D. , Risso, D. , Kosillo,. , Ngai, J. and Bateup, H.
Combinatorial Expression of Grp and Neurod6 Defines Dopamine Neuron Populations with Distinct Projection Patterns and Disease Vulnerability , eNeuro Vol. 5 , 1 , 2018
Cells
Neurons
Enzymes
Papain : 10 u/ml
Medium
Artificial CSF
Brain
Mouse
Mouse, adult
Swartzlander, D. , Propson, N. , Roy, E. , Saito, T. , Saido, T. , Wang, B. and Zheng, H.
Concurrent Cell Type-Specific Isolation and Profiling of Mouse Brains in Inflammation and Alzheimer's Disease. ,
JCI Insight
 3 , 2018
Cells
Astrocytes, microglia, endothelia, oligodendrocytes
Enzymes
Papain : 20 u/ml
Medium
HBSS
Brain
Mouse
Mouse, fetal and mature
Zhang, Y. , Sloan, S. , Clarke, L. , Caneda, C. , Plaza, C. , Blumenthal, P. , Vogel, H. , Steinberg, G. , Edwards, M. , Li, G. , Duncan, J. , Cheshier, S. , Shuer, L. , Chang, E. , Grant, G. , Gephart, M. and Barres, B.
Purification and Characterization of Progenitor and Mature Human Astrocytes Reveals Transcriptional and Functional Differences with Mouse. ,
Neuron
 89 , 37-53 , 2016
Cells
Astrocytes and neurons
Enzymes
Papain : 7.5-20 u/ml
Medium
RPMI
Brain
Mouse
Mouse, 3 week
Luo,Y.,Coskun, V. , Liang, A.,Yu, J. , Cheng, L.,Ge, W. , Shi, Z. , Zhang, K. , Li, C. , Lin, H. , Luo, D. , Wang, J. , Lin, C. , Dai, Z. , Zhu, H. , Zhang, J. , Liu, J. , Liu, H.,deVellis, J. , Horvath, S. , Sun, Y. and Li, S.
Different Patterns of Molecular Forms of Somatostatin are Released by the Rat Median Eminence and Hypothalamus. ,
Cell
 161 , 1175 , 2015
Cells
Neural
Enzymes
Papain : 20 u/ml
Medium
PBS
Brain
Mouse
Mouse, P13-15
Haseleu, J. , Anlauf, E. , Blaess, S. , Endl, E. and Derouiche, A.
Studying Subcellular Detail in Fixed Astrocytes: Dissociation of Morphologically Intact Glial Cells (DIMIGs). ,
Front Cell Neurosci
 7 , 54 , 2013
Cells
Glial
Enzymes
Papain : 20 u/ml
Medium
EBSS
Brain
Mouse
Mouse, P0-P15
Foo, L.
Purification of Rat and Mouse Astrocytes by Immunopanning. ,
Cold Spring Harb. Protoc.
 2013 , 421-32 , 2013
Cells
Astrocytes
Enzymes
Papain : 5 u/ml
Medium
DPBS
Brain
Mouse
Mouse, 1-2 day
O'Meara, R. , Ryan, S. , Colognato, H. and Kothary, R.
Derivation of Enriched Oligodendrocyte Cultures and Oligodendrocyte/Neuron Myelinating Co-Cultures from Post-Natal Murine Tissues. ,
J Vis Exp
 54 , 3324 , 2011
Cells
Oligodendrocytes, dorsal root ganglia
Enzymes
Papain : 0.15%
Medium
DMEM
Brain
Mouse
Mouse, 6-12 week
Chung, W. , Farley, J. , Swenson, A. , Barnard, J. , Hamilton, G. , Chiposi, R. and Drummond, H.
Extracellular Acidosis Activates ASIC-like Channels in Freshly Isolated Cerebral Artery Smooth Muscle Cells. ,
Am J Physiol Cell Physiol
 298 , C1198 , 2010
Cells
Vascular smooth muscle cells
Enzymes
Papain : 0.05%
Elastase : 0.05%
Medium
PBS
Brain
Mouse
Mouse, neonatal
Fasano, C. , Thibault, D. and Trudeau, L.
Culture of Postnatal Mesencephalic Dopamine Neurons on an Astrocyte Monolayer , Current Protocols in Neuroscience Vol. 44 , 3.21.1 , 2008
Cells
Neurons
Enzymes
Papain : 20 u/ml
Medium
Neurobasal
Brain
Mouse
Mouse, postnatal
Sher, F. , Rossler, R. , Brouwer, N. , Balasubramaniyan, V. , Boddeke, E. and Copray, S.
Differentiation of Neural Stem Cells Into Oligodendrocytes: Involvement of the Polycomb Group Protein Ezh2. ,
Stem Cells
 26 , 2875 , 2008
Cells
Astrocytes
Enzymes
Trypsin : 0.25%
Deoxyribonuclease I : 1,000 u/ml
Medium
HBSS
Brain
Mouse
Mouse, embryonic and postnatal
Hilgenberg, L. and Smith, M.
Preparation of Dissociated Mouse Cortical Neuron Cultures. ,
J Vis Exp
 10 , 562 , 2007
Cells
Cortical neurons
Enzymes
Papain : 4-10 u/ml
Medium
Neurobasal
Brain
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
Brain
Mouse
Mouse, 3 day
Nishioku T, Hashimoto K, Yamashita K, Liou SY, Kagamiishi Y, Maegawa H, Katsube N, Peters C, von Figura K, Saftig P, Katunuma N, Yamamoto K, Nakanishi H.
Involvement of cathepsin E in exogenous antigen processing in primary cultured murine microglia ,
J Biol Chem
 277 , 4816 , 2002
Cells
Microglia
Enzymes
Papain : 90 u/ml
Deoxyribonuclease I : 2000 u/ml
Medium
Eagle's MEM
Brain
Mouse
Mouse, SD, 8-12 week
O'Donnell SL, Frederick TJ, Krady JK, Vannucci SJ, Wood TL.
IGF-I and microglia/macrophage proliferation in the ischemic mouse brain ,
Glia
 39 , 85 , 2002
Cells
Microglia
Enzymes
Medium
RPMI-1640
Brain
Mouse
Mouse
Miyazawa K, Himi T, Garcia V, Yamagishi H, Sato S. and Ishizaki Y.
A role for p27/Kip1 in the control of cerebellar granule cell precursor proliferation ,
J Neurosci
 20 , 5756 , 2000
Cells
Cerebellar granule cell precursors
Enzymes
Papain : 0.435%
Medium
EBSS
Brain
Mouse
Mouse
Lim, D. and Alvarez-Buylla, A.
Interaction Between Astrocytes and Adult Subventricular Zone Precursors Stimulates Neurogenesis ,
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
 96 , 7526 , 1999
Cells
Astrocytes
Enzymes
Trypsin : 0.25%
Medium
DMEM
Brain
Mouse
Mouse, newborn
Jun K, Choi G, Yang SG, Choi KY, Kim H, Chan GC, Storm DR, Albert C, Mayr GW, Lee CJ, Shin HS.
Enhanced hippocampal CA1 LTP but normal spatial learning in inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate 3-kinase(A)-deficient mice ,
Learn Mem
 5 , 317-30 , 1998
Cells
Hippocampal cells
Enzymes
Papain : 10 u/ml
Medium
DMKM
Cartilage
Mouse
Mouse, 2-5 day
Otsuru, S. , Hofmann, T. , Raman, P. , Olson, T. , Guess, A. , Dominici, M. and Horwitz, E.
Genomic and Functional Comparison of Mesenchymal Stromal Cells Prepared Using Two Isolation Methods. ,
Cytotherapy
 17 , 262-70 , 2015
Cells
Chondrocytes
Enzymes
Trypsin : 0.25%
Collagenase Type 1 : 86.5 u/ml
Medium
DMEM
Endothelial
Mouse
Mouse
Daneman, R. , Zhou, L. , Agalliu, D. , Cahoy, J. , Kaushal, A. and Barres, B.
The Mouse Blood-Brain Barrier Transcriptome: a New Resource for Understanding the Development and Function of Brain Endothelial Cells. ,
PLoS ONE
 5 , e13741 , 2010
Cells
Endothelial
Enzymes
Papain : 40 u/ml
Deoxyribonuclease I : 125 u/ml
Medium
DPBS
Epithelial
Mouse
Mouse, 8-12 week
Brann, D. , Tsukahara, T. , Weinreb, C. , Lipovsek, M. , Van den Berge, K. , Gong, B. , Chance, R. , Macaulay, I. , Chou, H. , Fletcher, R. , Das, D. , Street, K. , de Bezieux, H. , Choi, Y. , Risso, D. and Dudoit, S.
Non-Neuronal Expression of SARS-CoV-2 Entry Genes in the Olfactory System Suggests Mechanisms Underlying COVID-19-Associated Anosmia. ,
Sci. Adv.
 6 , 2020
Cells
Nasal epithelium
Enzymes
Papain : 20 u/ml
Medium
EBSS
Epithelial
Mouse
Mouse
Pardo-Saganta, A. , Tata, P. , Law, B. , Saez, B. , Chow, R. , Prabhu, M. , Gridley, T. and Rajagopal, J.
Parent Stem Cells Can Serve as Niches for Their Daughter Cells. ,
Nature
 523 , 597-601 , 2015
Cells
Tracheal epithelial
Enzymes
Papain : 50 u/ml
Medium
See reference
Epithelial
Mouse
Mouse
Katayama, M. and Kan, M.
Heparin-Binding (Fibroblast) Growth Factors re Potential Autocrine Regulators of Esophageal Epithelial Cell Proliferation ,
In Vitro Cell Dev Biol
 27 , 533 , 1991
Cells
Esophageal
Enzymes
Trypsin : 0.25%
Medium
PBS, CMF
Epithelial
Mouse
Mouse, mature, female, 6-8-wk-old
Ghosh, D. , Danielson, K. , Alston, J. and Heyner, S.
Functional Differentiation of Mouse Uterine Epithelial Cells Grown on Collagen Gels or Reconstituted Basement Membranes ,
In Vitro Cell Dev Biol
 27A , 713 , 1991
Cells
Uterine
Enzymes
Trypsin : 0.2%
Trypsin : 0.2%
Medium
HBSS
Epithelial
Mouse
Mouse, female, 18 - 20 days
(also 20 - 22 days)
Fukamachi, H. and McLachlan, J.
Proliferation and Differentiation of Mouse Uterine Epithelial Cells in Primary Serum-Free Culture: Estradiol-17B Suppresses Uterine Epithelial Proliferation Cultured on a Basement Membrane-Like Substratum ,
In Vitro Cell Dev Biol
 27A , 907 , 1991
Cells
Uterine
Enzymes
Trypsin : 0.25%
Medium
HBSS
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, 4-8 week
Kobayashi, T. , Yoshioka, R. , Shiraishi, A. and Ohashi, Y.
New Technique for Culturing Corneal Epithelial Cells of Normal Mice. ,
Mol Vis
 15 , 1589-93 , 2009
Cells
Corneal epithelial
Enzymes
Trypsin : 0.25%
Medium
DMEM/F12
Eye
Mouse
mouse, adult
Jadhav AP, Cho SH. and Cepko CL
Notch activity permits retinal cells to progress through multiple progenitor states and acquire a stem cell property ,
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
 103 , 18998 , 2006
Cells
Retinal
Enzymes
Papain : 50 u/ml
Medium
DMEM/F-12

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.