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Heart
Rat
Rat, neonatal
Guo K, Searfoss G, Krolikowski D, Pagnoni M, Franks C, Clark K, Yu KT, Jaye M, Ivashchenko Y.
Hypoxia induces the expression of the pro-apoptotic gene BNIP3 ,
Cell Death Differ
 8 , 367-76 , 2001
Cells
Cardiomyocytes
Enzymes
NCIS kit : per instructions
Medium
DMEM/M199
Heart
Rat
Rat, Harlan SD, pup
Schwartzbauer, G. and Robbins, J.
The Tumor Suppressor Gene PTEN Can Regulate Cardiac Hypertrophy and Survival ,
J Biol Chem
 276 , 35786 , 2001
Cells
Cardiomyocytes
Medium
DMEM/Ham's F-12
Heart
Rat
Rat, SD, male
Dai L, Brookes PS, Darley-Usmar VM. and Anderson PG.
Bioenergetics in cardiac hypertrophy: mitochondrial respiration as a pathological target of NO ,
Am J Physiol/Heart
 281 , H2261-H2269 , 2001
Cells
Cardiomyocytes
Enzymes
Collagenase Type 2 : 140 u/ml
Medium
Krebs-Henseleit
Heart
Rat
Rat, Wistar, female
Pyle, W, Lester, J. and Hofmann, P.
Effects of Kappa-opioid receptor activation of myocardium ,
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol
 281 , H669 , 2001
Cells
Ventricular myocytes
Enzymes
Medium
Ringer solution
Heart
Rat
Rat, SD, 1-2 day
Arutunyan A, Webster D, Swift L, Sarvazyan N.
Localized injury in cardiomyocyte network: a new experimental model of ischemia-reperfusion arrhythmias ,
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol
 280 , H1905-15 , 2001
Cells
Cardiomyocytes
Enzymes
Trypsin : 0.01%
Medium
HBSS
Heart
Rat
Rat, wistar, 2 day
Cowan DB, Poutias DN, Del Nido PJ. and McGowan FX Jr
CD14-independent activation of cardiomyocyte signal transduction by bacterial endotoxin ,
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol
 279 , H619 , 2000
Cells
Cardiomyocytes
Enzymes
NCIS kit : per instructions
Medium
DMEM-F12
Heart
Rat
Rat, neonatal
Webster DR. and Patrick DL.
Beating rate of isolated neonatal cardiomyocytes is regulated by the stable microtubule subset ,
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol
 278 , H1653 , 2000
Cells
Cardiomyocytes
Enzymes
NCIS kit : per instructions
Medium
L-15
Heart
Rat
Rat, newborn
Kim, D. and Pleumsamran, A.
Cytoplasmic Unsaturated Free Fatty Acids Inhibit ATP-Dependent Gating of the G Protein-gated K+ Channel ,
J Gen Physiol
 115 , 287 , 2000
Cells
Atrial
Enzymes
Trypsin : 0.06%
Medium
DMEM
Heart
Rat
Rat, SD, adult female
Puri S, Bansal DD, Uskokovic MR. and MacGregor RR.
Induction of tissue plasminogen activator secretion from rat heart microvascular cells by fM 1,25(OH)(2)D(3) ,
Am J Physiol/Endo
 278(2) , E293 , 2000
Cells
Heart microvascular cells
Enzymes
CLSPA : 250u/ml
Papain : 5 u/ml
Elastase : 0.8 u/ml
Medium
L-15
Heart
Rat
Rat, 1-2 day
Bueno OF, De Windt LJ, Tymitz KM, Witt SA, Kimball TR, Klevitsky R, Hewett TE, Jones SP, Lefer DJ, Peng CF, Kitsis RN. and Molkentin JD.
The MEK1-ERK1/2 signaling pathway promotes compensated cardiac hypertrophy in transgenic mice ,
EMBO J
 19(23) , 6341 , 2000
Cells
Cardiomyocytes
Enzymes
Collagenase Type 1 : 84 u/ml
Pancreatin : 0.05%
Medium
M199 medium
Heart
Rat
Rat, Winstar, 1-2 day
Maki T, Horio T, Yoshihara F, Suga S, Takeo S, Matsuo H. and Kangawa K
Effect of neutral endopeptidase inhibitor on endogenous atrial natriuretic peptide as a paracrine factor in cultured cardiac fibroblasts ,
Br J Pharmacol
 131(6) , 1204 , 2000
Cells
Ventricular myocytes
Enzymes
Medium
DMEM
Heart
Rat
Rat, SD, male, 250-300g
Sun L, Chang J, Kirchhoff SR. and Knowlton AA.
Activation of HSF and selective increase in heat-shock proteins by acute dexamethasone treatment ,
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol
 278(4) , H1091 , 2000
Cells
Cardiomyocytes
Enzymes
Medium
M199
Heart
Rat
Rat, Lewis, adult male, 300-350-g
Kim, B. , Nikolovski, J. , Bonadio, J. , Smiley, E. and Mooney, D.
Engineered Smooth Muscle Tissues: Regulating Cell Phenotype with the Scaffold ,
Exp Cell Res
 251 , 318 , 1999
Cells
Aorta, smooth muscle
Enzymes
Trypsin : 0.025%
Medium
Medium 199 with 20% FBS medium
Heart
Rat
Rat, 10-15 newborn, 1-2 days old
Nemec, J. , Wickman, K. and Clapham, D.
GBy Binding Increases the Open Time of IKACh: Kinetic Evidence for Multiple GBy Binding Sites ,
Biophys J
 76 , 246 , 1999
Cells
Atrial
Enzymes
Trypsin : 0.03%
Medium
HBSS or EBSS
Heart
Rat
Rat, 1-2 day
Matsui, T. , Li, Ling, Del Monte, F. , Fukui, Y. , Franke, T. , Hajjar, R. and Rosenzweig, A.
Adenoviral gene transfer of activated phosphatidylinositol 3'-kinase and Akt inhibits apoptosis of hypoxic cardiomyocytes in vitro ,
Circulation
 100 , 2373-9 , 1999
Cells
Cardiomyocytes
Enzymes
NCIS kit : per instructions
Medium
RPMI
Heart
Rat
Rat, 1-3 day
Adderley SR. and Fitzgerald DJ.
Oxidative damage of cardiomyocytes is limited by extracellular regulated kinases 1/2-mediated induction of cyclooxygenase-2 ,
J Biol Chem
 274 , 5038 , 1999
Cells
Neonatal rat cardiomyocytes
Enzymes
Pancreatin : 0.06%
Medium
DMEM/F12
Heart
Rat
Rat, 1-2 day
Reinecke H, Zhang M, Bartosek T. and Murry CE.
Survival, integration, and differentiation of cardiomyocyte grafts: a study in normal and injured rat hearts ,
Circulation
 100(2) , 193 , 1999
Cells
Cardiomyocytes
Enzymes
Collagenase Type 2 : 95 u/ml
Pancreatin : 0.06%
Medium
DMEM
Heart
Rat
Rat, Wistar, male
Sambandam N, Abrahani MA, St Pierre E, Al-Atar O, Cam MC. and Rodrigues B.
Localization of lipoprotein lipase in the diabetic heart: regulation by acute changes in insulin ,
Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol
 19(6) , 1526 , 1999
Cells
Cardiomyocytes
Enzymes
Collagenase Type 2 : 228 u/ml
Medium
Joklik MEM
Heart
Rat
Rat, adult and neonatal
Richards SM, Jaconi ME, Vassort G. and Puceat M.
A spliced variant of AE1 gene encodes a truncated form of Band 3 in heart: the predominant anion exchanger in ventricular myocytes ,
J Cell Sci
 112 , 1519 , 1999
Cells
Cardioomyocytes
Enzymes
Collagenase Type 4 : 0.12%-adult
Collagenase Type 2 : 0.05%-neonatal
Medium
DMEM/medium 199
Heart
Rat
Rat
Zilberman, A. , Dave, V. , Miano, J. , Olson, E. and Periasamy, M.
Evolutionary Conserved Promoter Region Containing CArg-Like Elements is Crucial for Smooth Muscle Myosin Heavy Chain Gene Expression ,
Circ Res
 82 , 566 , 1998
Cells
Thoracic aorta, smooth muscle
Enzymes
Elastase : 0.02%
Medium
(see reference)
Heart
Rat
Rat, SD, 1 day
Wagner DR, Combes A, McTiernan C, Sanders VJ, Lemster B, Feldman AM.
Adenosine inhibits lipopolysaccharide-induced cardiac expression of tumor necrosis factor-alpha ,
Circ Res
 82 , 47-56 , 1998
Cells
Cardiomyocytes
Enzymes
NCIS kit : per instructions
Medium
DMEM/F-12
Heart
Rat
Rat, SD, 300-350 g
Yu L, Netticadan T, Xu YJ, Panagia V, Dhalla NS.
Mechanisms of lysophosphatidylcholine-induced increase in intracellular calcium in rat cardiomyocytes ,
J Pharmacol Exp Ther
 286 , 1-8 , 1998
Cells
Cardiomyocytes
Enzymes
Medium
see reference
Heart
Rat
Rat, SD, female, 200g
Westfall M V, Rust E M, Metzger J M.
Slow skeletal troponin I gene transfer, expression, and myofilament incorporation enhances adult cardiac myocyte contractile function ,
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
 94 , 5444-9 , 1997
Cells
Ventricular cardiac myocytes
Enzymes
Medium
Krebs-Henseleit buffer
Heart
Rat
Rat, Wistar, 1 day
Kinugawa, K. , Kohmoto, O. , Yao, A. , Serizawa, T. and Takahashki, T.
Cardiac inducible nitric oxide synthase negatively modulates myocardial function in cultured rat myocytes ,
Am J Physiol
 272 , H35-47 , 1997
Cells
Cardiomyoctes
Enzymes
Collagenase Type 2 : 80 u/ml
Medium
HBSS
Heart
Rat
Rat, neonatal, 5-day
Vanwinkle, W. , Snuggs, M. and Buja, L.
Cardiogel: A Biosynthetic Extracellular Matrix for Cardiomyocyte Culture ,
In Vitro Cell Dev Biol Anim
 32 , 478 , 1996
Cells
Cardiomyocytes
Enzymes
Trypsin : 0.05%
Medium
DMEM
Heart
Rat
Rat, SD, fetal and neonatal
Li RK, Mickle DA, Weisel RD, Zhang J, Mohabeer MK.
In vivo survival and function of transplanted rat cardiomyocytes ,
Circ Res
 78 , 283-8 , 1996
Cells
Cardiomyocytes
Enzymes
Collagenase : 0.1%
Trypsin : 0.2%
Medium
PBS
Heart
Rat
Rat, SD, 250-300 g
Sharma VK, Colecraft HM, Wang DX, Levey AI, Grigorenko EV, Yeh HH. and Sheu SS
Molecular and functional identification of m1 muscarinic acetylcholine receptors in rat ventricular myocytes ,
Circ Res
 79(1) , 86 , 1996
Cells
Cardiomyocytes
Enzymes
Medium
Joklik's
Heart
Rat
SD, SHR or WKY
MacGregor, R. , Klein, R. and Bansal, D.
Secretion of Plasminogen Activator Activity from Neonatal Rat Heart Cells is Regulated by Hormones and Growth Factors ,
Ann N Y Acad Sci
 752 , 331 , 1995
Cells
Cardiomyocytes
Enzymes
NCIS kit : per instructions
Medium
HBSS
Heart
Rat
Rat, SD, male, 200-250 g
Laughlin, M. , Schaeffer, M. and Sturek, M.
Effect of Exercise Training on Intracellular Free Ca2+ Transients in Ventricular Myocytes of Rats ,
Am J Physiol
 73 , 1141 , 1992
Cells
Myocytes
Ventricles
Enzymes
Collagenase : 0.07%
Medium
Joklik's MEM
Heart
Rat
Rat, SD, adult, female, 180-220 g
Fischer, Y. , Rose, H. and Kammermeier. H.
Highly Insulin-Responsive Isolated Rat Heart Muscle Cells Yielded By a Modified Isolation Method ,
Life Sci
 49 , 1679 , 1991
Cells
Cardiomyocytes
Enzymes
Collagenase : 0.11%
Medium
(see reference)
Heart
Rat
Rat, SD, female, 60-90 days
Welder, A.A. , Grant, R. , Bradlaw, J. and Acosta, D.
A Primary Culture System of Adult Rat Heart Cells for the Study of Toxicologic Agents ,
In Vitro Cell Dev Biol
 27 , 921 , 1991
Cells
Myocardial
Enzymes
Medium
Joklik's MEM, Kreb's-Henseleit buffer, CF
Heart
Rat
Rat
(also bovine)
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
Heart
Rat
Rat, neonatal, 1-4 days
Marino, T.A. , Walter, R.,Cobb, E. , Palasiuk, M. , Parsons, T. and Mercer, W.E.
Effects of Norepinephrine on Neonatal Rat Cardiocyte Growth and Differentiation ,
In Vitro Cell Dev Biol
 26 , 229 , 1990
Cells
Cardiomyocytes
Enzymes
Medium
Krebs-Henseleit Buffer, CF
Heart
Rat
Rat, adult, female
Nag, A.C. , Lee, M. and Kosiur, J.R.
Adult Cardiac Muscle Cells in Long-Term Serum-Free Culture:Myofibrillar Organization and Expression of Myosin Heavy Chain Isoforms ,
In Vitro Cell Dev Biol
 26 , 464 , 1990
Cells
Myocytes
Enzymes
Medium
Joklik's MEM
Heart
Rat
Rats, AW, late-gestation pregnant females
Engelmann, G. , McTiernan, C. , Gerrity, R. and Samarel, A.
Serum-free Primary Cultures of Neonatal Rat Cardiomyocytes: Cellular and Molecular Applications ,
Technique
 2 (6) , 279 , 1990
Cells
Ventricular cardiomyocytes
Enzymes
Collagenase Type 2 : 0.05 - 0.08%
Medium
See reference
Heart
Rat
Rat, SD, adult, female, 175 - 225 g
Bugaisky, L.B. and Zak, R.
Differentiation of Adult Rat Cardiac Myocytes in Cell Culture ,
Circ Res
 64 , 493 , 1989
Cells
Myocytes
Enzymes
Collagenase : 0.1%
Medium
Joklik's medium

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.