Here, we present a protocol to rapidly isolate high-quality nuclei from the fresh or frozen tissue for downstream massively parallel RNA sequencing. We include detergent-mechanical and hypotonic-mechanical tissue disruption and cell lysis options, both of which can be used for isolation of nuclei.
Matson, K. J., Sathyamurthy, A., Johnson, K. R., Kelly, M. C., Kelley, M. W., Levine, A. J. Isolation of Adult Spinal Cord Nuclei for Massively Parallel Single-nucleus RNA Sequencing. J. Vis. Exp. (140), e58413, doi:10.3791/58413 (2018).