Biospecimen procurement, processing & banking

• Prospective & banked human tissue procurement from remnant clinical specimens
  • Surgical resection specimens
  • Autopsy material
• Sample pick up and transport
  • Clinical trial support
  • Banking for investigator-specific protocols
  • For information on phlebotomy services click here
• Enzymatic dissociation & viable freezing of tissue samples
• Peripheral blood leukocyte (PBL) Ficoll isolation & viable freezing
• Extraction of nucleic acids and protein from tissue samples
• Banking of specimens for individual investigators

Histology-based research techniques

(For most histology services involving animal tissues, please use the Research Histology Core Facility.)

• Paraffin embedding of human tissue specimens
• Histologic sectioning of fixed human tissue specimens
• Cryostat sectioning of frozen human tissue specimens
• Cytospin preparation of fluids containing cells
• Histology-guided macrodissection to enrich for specific cell types
• Laser microdissection
  • Training on instrument
  • Equipment usage
• Immunohistochemistry
  • Performed on human and animal tissues
  • Panel of "standard" antibodies
  • Custom immunohistochemistry (Investigator-supplied antibody)
• Custom tissue microarray manufacture
• Tissue microarray of the most common human carcinomas (159 cases)