Rapid Isolation of Single Cells from Mouse and Human Teeth

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Authors

KŘIVÁNEK Jan LAVICKÝ Josef BOUDERLIQUE Thibault ADAMEYKO Igor

Year of publication 2021
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Jove-Journal of Visualized Experiments
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Faculty of Medicine

Citation
Web https://www.jove.com/t/63043/rapid-isolation-of-single-cells-from-mouse-and-human-teeth
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.3791/63043
Keywords Mouse and Human Teeth; Single Cells; Rapid Isolation
Description Mouse and human teeth represent challenging organs for quick and efficient cell isolation for single-cell transcriptomic or other applications. The dental pulp tissue, rich in the extracellular matrix, requires a long and tedious dissociation process that is typically beyond the reasonable time for single-cell transcriptomics. For avoiding artificial changes in gene expression, the time elapsed from euthanizing an animal until the analysis of single cells needs to be minimized. This work presents a fast protocol enabling to obtain single-cell suspension from mouse and human teeth in an excellent quality suitable for scRNA-seq (single-cell RNA-sequencing). This protocol is based on accelerated tissue isolation steps, enzymatic digestion, and subsequent preparation of final single-cell suspension. This enables fast and gentle processing of tissues and allows using more animal or human samples for obtaining cell suspensions with high viability and minimal transcriptional changes. It is anticipated that this protocol might guide researchers interested in performing the scRNA-seq not only on the mouse or human teeth but also on other extracellular matrix-rich tissues, including cartilage, dense connective tissue, and dermis.
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