Tissue Banking Overview: Washington University Medical Center
Tissue Banking Overview: Washington University Medical Center
Tissue Banking Overview: Washington University Medical Center
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Specimen Storage<br />
• Ultralow mechanical freezers (-80°C)<br />
Cheaper (Long Term)<br />
Error Prone<br />
Less Stable<br />
• Liquid nitrogen (-130°C)<br />
More Stable<br />
Less Error Prone<br />
More Expensive<br />
• Vacuum sealed (4°C)<br />
Paraffin Blocks / Slides<br />
No Data<br />
Gross procurement of tissues for research banking<br />
‣ Academic hospitals with research tissue repositories<br />
often derive many internal specimen acquisitions from<br />
their site's surgical pathology service<br />
‣ Typically, such acquisitions come from appropriately<br />
consented tissue discards sampled from surgical<br />
resections<br />
‣<strong>Tissue</strong>, if not banked, would otherwise be thrown<br />
away since it is not needed for clinical diagnosis<br />
‣ Surgical pathology has patient care as its primary<br />
mission, so competing needs for tissue inevitable arise:<br />
preserving adequate tissue for clinical diagnosis is key<br />
‣ Involvement of trained pathology personnel is<br />
important<br />
McDonald SA, Chernock RD, Leach TA, Kahn AA, Yip JH, Rossi J, Pfeifer JD. Procurement of<br />
human tissues for research banking in the surgical pathology laboratory: prioritization practices at<br />
<strong>Washington</strong> <strong>University</strong> <strong>Medical</strong> <strong>Center</strong>. In press, Biopreservation and Biobanking, 2011.<br />
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