We present a protocol for the isolation of endocardial and coronary endothelial cells from rat hearts through sequential tissue digestion in a digestion buffer, cell collection from recurrent centrifuge cycles, and cell purification using anti-rat CD31 microbeads.
Klein, A., Bayrau, B., Miao, Y., Gu, M. Isolation of Endocardial and Coronary Endothelial Cells from the Ventricular Free Wall of the Rat Heart. J. Vis. Exp. (158), e61126, doi:10.3791/61126 (2020).