Bio-Samples Available
ETHICAL TISSUE is able to provide a wide range of tissue samples and other biological material that have been collected, processed and stored from both living and cadaveric donors.
Bio-samples collected from living donors include:
- Tumour and associated normal tissue from a variety of tumour resections
- Bone samples removed during hip / knee replacements.
- Blood and urine samples obtained from healthy volunteers.
- Tissue sections taken from a variety of formalin preserved wax embedded tissue blocks retained within the histopathology departments of collaborating NHS hospitals.
- Endothelial cells from discarded umbilical cords or saphenous veins
- Body fluids such as saliva, sweat, phlegm, pus, sebum, digestive juices, tears collected at therapeutic intervention
Cadaveric samples include:
- tissue removed from transplant donors subsequently found to be non-transplantable
- liver
- lungs
- heart
- pancreas
- kidney
- skin
- bone
- other organs from appropriately consented transplant donors
- bladder
- gastrointestinal tissue
- prostate
- brain
- spleen
- adipose tissue
Depending on the requirement of the study, these bio-samples can be supplied to the researcher as follows:
- fresh in perfusion solution on melting ice
- isolated cells
- growing in tissue culture medium
- frozen down as cell pellets
- fresh tissue cell fractions (homogenate, S9, microsomes)
- frozen at -80C tissue fractions (homogenate, S9, microsomes)
- snap frozen dissected components in liquid nitrogen or on dry ice
- cryostat frozen sections
- formalin preserved wax embedded tissue blocks
- tissue sections on microscope slides
- tissue microarray blocks or tissue microarray tissue sections
- resin embedded samples
- extracted DNA, RNA or protein samples
Should additional bio-samples or additional information be required, please contact ETHICAL TISSUE (enquiries@ethicaltissue.org) who will be able to advise on availability.
