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TISSUE BIOREPOSITORY AND PATHOLOGY SERVICES. TISSUE PROCUREMENT. Routinely collect tumor tissue, adjacent normal tissue, buffy coat, plasma, newly diagnosed and pre-transplant hematologic samples Also collect urine, saliva, and biopsies for particular projects
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TISSUE BIOREPOSITORY AND PATHOLOGY SERVICES
TISSUE PROCUREMENT • Routinely collect tumor tissue, adjacent normal tissue, buffy coat, plasma, newly diagnosed and pre-transplant hematologic samples • Also collect urine, saliva, and biopsies for particular projects • All tissue samples receive quality control analysis before distribution • Site specific committees comprised of surgeons and researchers must approve request for samples that are in low inventory. Ensures that valued samples are given to important projects
DONOR EVENTS 2011*event could be any combination of tissue and blood samples
Collections: 2010 vs. 2011 Each month, we have increased our tissue collection over what it was in the previous year
Pathology Services • Tissue fixation, processing, and embedding • Frozen and FFPE tissue sectioning • H&E staining • Immunohistochemistry • RNA isolation and BioAnalyzer • LCM • Tissue MicrroArray • *In the process of offering special stains * • Other requests …
Laser Capture Microdissection Cryostat & Microtome PixCell II XT Bioanalyzer RiboAmp TM & Paradise TM Cell Selection Extraction & QC Amplification Amplified Unamplified H&E section Extracted RNA qPCR analysis Captured cells After capture
BIOANALYZER • Determine sample quality before performing downstream applications • Faster than gels – up to 12 samples in 30 min • Minimal sample consumption; 1 μL • Ready-to-use reagent kits • Chip preparation in less than 5 min
TISSUE MICRO ARRAY • Services provided: • Custom TMA construction • TMA slide sectioning • Immunohistochemistry and in situ hybridization on TMA slides • TMA pathology imaging scoring • Support for grant applications by providing LCM budgets and support letters
Contact InformationKiki GibbsPhone: 843-792-8165E-mail: gibbski@musc.eduLocation: room 421 Bioengineering Building