This protocol is adapted from Matrigel product sheet and associated literature. Read the Matrigel product sheet for more detailed handling instructions.
□ Clinical centrifuge (in cold room)
□ (Optional) cold pipette tips
□ Conical centrifuge tube
□ Growth factor-reduced Matrigel
□ Organoid Growth Media (several options)
o Expansion media (recommended)
o Note: Many different media combinations have been used to grow organoids from crypts. The original media formulations required expensive recombinant growth factors.
Refer to the Media Formulation sheet for additional recipes. Current protocols replace Noggin, R-spondin, and/or Wnt3 growth factors with conditioned media made from L-cells that produce and secrete these factors into culture media.
§ IntestiCult‱ Organoid Growth Medium (Mouse)
§ 50% L-WRN conditioned media
§ Antibiotic supplement (several options)
Pen/Strep, Gibco: 15140-122
Primocin, InvivoGen: ant-pm-1
□ (Optional) Crypt Shake Solution:
o 1mL in tubes to collect filter flow through
□ TrypLE express +10µM Y27632
o 4x matrigel volume being passaged
o Contained in a conical tube of appropriate volume
o 10% of TrypLE volume employed