Thymus - Tissue Tables

SpeciesSpecies DetailCellsEnzyme(s)Medium Reference
Mouse Mouse (BALB/c, C3H, C57BL/6), 1-28 day Epithelial, thymus Dispase: 1.5 µg/ml
DMEM Short-term Cultivation of Murine Thymic Epithelial Cells in a Serum-Free Medium , In Vitro Cell Dev Biol 26, 671, 1990
Mouse Mouse, C3H, 16 wk old, female Epithelial Collagenase Type 3: 0.1%
DMEM Long-Term Proliferation of Mouse Thymic Epithelial Cells in Culture , In Vitro Cell Dev Biol 22 (12), 738, 1986
Mouse Mouse, Swiss, 6 wk Thymus Collagenase Type 3: 150 u/ml
DMEM Analysis of Cellular Heterogeneity in Mouse Thymus Cultures , In Vitro 17, 431, 1981
Rat Rat Thymic epithelial Collagenase Type 3: 0.1%
DMEM , Cell & Tissue Culture: Laboratory Procedures,Doyle, A., Griffiths, J., and Newell, D., John Wiley and Sons, Ltd., 21C:4.1, 1995
Rat Rat (ACI/NMs X BUF/Mna) F1, male, 28 months
Rat, (ACI/MNs) male, 8 weeks
(also bovine, adult)
Epthelial Collagenase Type 3: 0.1%
Eagle's MEM Serum-free Establishment of Functional Epithelial Cell Lines from a Rat Thyoma and a Rat Thymus , In Vitro Cell Dev Biol 26, 713, 1990