Donor Recruiting and Selection
- Recruit and schedule donors
Product Customization
- Irradiation
- Selection by ABO and/or CMV, per product
- Selection by Aspirin use
- Selection by demographic information (age, gender, ethnicity), per product.
- Special requests (e.g. red cell antigen, HLA type, repeat donor, matched tubes, etc.)
Clinical Laboratory Tests (Donor or product, unless otherwise specified)
- ABO/Rh
- CBC, automated, with 3 part differential
- CMV
- Hemoglobin S
- Hepatitis panel (incl. hepatitis B surface antigen, hepatitis B core (total) antibody, hepatitis C antibody, hepatitis B DNA, Hepatitis C RNA)
- HIV 1,2 antibody, HTLV-1,2 antibody, syphilis antibody, and HIV RNA
- T. cruzi antibody test
- West Nile RNA
- Infectious disease panel with counseling services
- Confirmatory/Supplemental testing (if infectious disease screen is positive)
- Hepatitis B Neutralization
- Hepatitis C 2nd Manufacturer Screening Test
- HIV-1 IFA
- HIV-2 EIA
- Geenius HIV 1/2 Supplemental
- HTLV- Western Blot 2.4
- TPPA (Syphilis)
- RBC antibody screen
- White blood cell count, final product, flow cytometry
HLA Testing
- HLA typing, molecular, low resolution (loci: A, B, C, DR, DQ, DP)
- HLA typing, molecular, high resolution sequence analysis (loci: A, B, C, DR, DQ, DP)
- Typing of individual HLA locus upon request
- HLA antibody screening and/or identification: lgG Ab; C1q-binding Ab)
- Crossmatch testing, B and T cell
- Short tandem repeat (STR) analysis for chimerism or identity testing
- Subset isolation from bone marrow aspirate or peripheral blood (human CD34+, CD19+, CD56+, CD3+, CD15+ subsets) for chimerism analysis
- DNA extraction and storage
- Lymphocyte cryopreservation and storage
- Serum freezing and storage
Flow Cytometry
- Consultation on experimental design and panel design using Multiparameter flow cytometry
- Flow Cytometry analysis
- Multicolor Flow Cytometry analysis
- Flow Cytometry sorting
- Flow Cytometry sorting with cell prep
- T cell subset analysis
- Total lymphocyte subsets (TBNK)
- Cell isolation and cryopreservation
- Cytokine testing
- Immunophenotyping:
- Total lymphocyte subsets (TBNK)
- T cells and TH cell subsets
- T regulatory cells
- Total B cells and B cells subsets
- Dendritics cells and subsets
- Macrophages and Monocytes
- NK cells
- iNKT cells
- Stem cell (CD34) enumeration
Instrumentation for FACS Analysis and FACS sorting:
- BD LSRII equipped with UV, violet, blue, yellow green and red lasers (18 parameters)
- BD FACSAria II equipped with violet, blue and red lasers (14 parameters)
- BD FACSCantoII equipped with blue, red and violet lasers (10 parameters)
We offer a variety of testing, not limited to what is stated above. You may contact the Flow Cytometry supervisor for your specific needs. E-mail: lornat@stanford.edu
Miscellaneous Fees
- Apheresis set-up
- Clinical Trial set up
- Consent or contract variation development
- Extended hours (services scheduled before or after blood center posted hours),charged per hour
- Physician consultation
- STAT collection, apheresis (<24 hours notice)