Tissue Clearing Reagents

12 SmartBatch+-processed mouse brains before delipidation
Before delipidation
12 SmartBatch+-processed mouse brains after delipidation and index-matching
After index-matching
12 SmartBatch+-processed mouse brains immunolabeled with NeuN
After immunolabeling & imaging

Clear+ tissue clearing system

Our new Clear+ tissue clearing technique is the only method that delipidates and optically clears samples with no change in sample morphology and with minimal impact on structural integrity. Samples processed with our tissue clearing reagents retain mechanical strength, molecular stability, and native 3D structure.

An advance on our founder’s CLARITY method, this targeted delipidation approach is also dramatically faster: fully delipidate whole mouse brains in just one day with SmartBatch+ active clearing, or just one week with passive clearing. Clear+ can also delipidate larger samples like whole rat brains in ~4 days.

After clearing, leverage our active immunolabeling methods to rapidly and uniformly label whole organs from surface to core with significantly less antibody than passive techniques like iDISCO and CUBIC.

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Passive Clearing Kit

Start with the most versatile passive clearing method available: preserve, clear, and index-match your samples with our simple and reliable ready-made solutions, now featuring the Clear+ system.

Our reagents preserve fluorescent proteins, reduce autofluorescence, and optimally prepare samples for immunostaining, 3D imaging, and analysis. For significantly faster clearing speed and sample throughput, upgrade to electrophoretic clearing using SmartBatch+.

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Kit Sizes

250 mL: Processes 8+ mouse brains or comparably sized samples. Includes: 250 mL SHIELD, 250 mL Clear+ Delipidation Buffer, and 250 mL EasyIndex.

500 mL: Processes 16+ mouse brains or comparably sized samples. Includes: 500 mL SHIELD, 500 mL Clear+ Delipidation Buffer, and 500 mL EasyIndex.

Recent publications citing LifeCanvas tissue clearing reagents

Brain tumors induce widespread disruption of calvarial bone and alteration of skull marrow immune landscape

Abhishek Dubey, Erika Yamashita, Biljana Stangeland, Imane Abbas, David Fooksman, Robert A. Harris, Gregory M. Palmer, Wade R. Koba, Jinghang Zhang, Benjamin T. Himes, Olivia R. Lu, Winson S. Ho, Raoul V. Kuiper, Derek Huffman, Zhiping Wu, Yutaka Uchida, Masaru Ishii, Rachel L. Welch, Alexander F. Fiedler, David Reynolds, S. A. Mohieb Hosainey, Kostantin Dobrenis, Qinge Ye, Kevin Fisher, Nathaniel Killian, E. Richard Stanley, Emad Eskandar & Jinan Behnan

Journal:
Nature Neuroscience
Publication Date:
Research Area:
Cancer
Tissue Species:
Mouse
Tissue Type:
Brain, Bone
Products Cited:
SHIELD, EasyIndex, SmartBatch+, SmartSPIM
Three-dimensional quantification of oxytocin neurons in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus reveals sex- and subregion-specific differences in two genetic mouse models of autism

Aishwarya Patwardhan, Siyao Li, Jessica Chen, Katrina Y. Choe

Journal:
Journal of Neuroendocrinology
Publication Date:
Tissue Species:
Mouse
Tissue Type:
Brain
Products Cited:
SHIELD, EasyIndex, SmartBatch+, SmartSPIM
Passive intestinal microbiome sampling using an ingestible device with tortuous lattices

Hanan Mohammed, Sadaf Usmani, Brij Bhushan, Anique Ahmad, Oraib Al-Ketan, Ahmed A. Shibl, Maylis Boitet, Devjoy Dev, Heba Naser, Aashish R. Jha, Khalil B. Ramadi

Journal:
Cell Device
Publication Date:
Research Area:
Methods, Other
Tissue Species:
Mouse
Tissue Type:
GI Tract
Products Cited:
SHIELD, EasyIndex, SmartBatch+, SmartSPIM, CRO Services

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