GFP-Mouse Heart Microvascular Endothelial Cells

Mouse Heart Microvascular Endothelial cells (mHtMECs) are isolated from hearts of 3-week old male C57BL/6 mice and GFP expressing mHtMECs-GFP were selected from puromycin resistant cells after transfected with lentiviral expressing GFP. Cells are shipped in a frozen vial (provided at passage 3, with > 5 x 10^5 cells/vial). mHtMECs-GFP are cultured with specially formulated Endothelial Growth Medium. Since the cells have limited proliferation capacity (cells may be expanded for a maximum of 2-3 passages) in vitro, long term culture of mHtMECs is not recommended, even cultured following the detailed protocol described below.