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- Title
ISOLATION OF LIVE CELLS FROM DIFFERENT MICE TISSUES UP TO NINE DAYS AFTER DEATH.
- Authors
Voga, Metka; Pleterski, Ana; Majdič, Gregor
- Abstract
Some limited reports suggest that cells can survive in the cadavers for much longer than it was previously thought. In our study we explored how time after death, tissue type (muscle, brain and adipose tissue), storage temperature of cadavers (4 °C or at room temperature) and form of tissue storage (stored as cadavers or tissue pieces in phosphate buffered saline) affect the success of harvesting live cells from mice after death. Cells were isolated from dead tissues and grown in standard conditions. Some cells were used for RNA extraction and RT² Profiler™ PCR Array for cell lineage identification was performed to establish which lineages the cells obtained from post mortem tissues belong to. Results of our study showed that viable cells can be regularly isolated from muscle and brain tissue 3 days post mortem and with difficulty up to 6 days post mortem. Viable cells from brain tissue can be isolated up to 9 days post mortem. No cells were isolated from adipose tissue except immediately after death. In all instances viable cells were isolated only when tissues were stored at 4 °C. Tissue storage did not affect cell isolation. Isolated cells were progenitors from different germ layers. Our results show that live cells could be obtained from mouse cadavers several days after death.
- Subjects
CELL separation; DEATH rate; EPIBLAST; TISSUES; TISSUE arrays; ADIPOSE tissue physiology
- Publication
Slovenian Veterinary Research / Slovenski Veterinarski Zbornik, 2021, Vol 58, Issue 4, p125
- ISSN
1580-4003
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.26873/SVR-1155-2021