The goal of the Tissue Bank is to facilitate biomedical research using tissues at Stanford by providing services for the procurement, storage, distribution, and study of tissues.
Description of Services
Activities and services include:
- collecting and banking freshly-frozen tissue specimens for viable cell studies,
- processing and banking blood components,
- maintaining a tissue database and coordinating patient consent,
- assuring regulatory compliance.
Selected References
Cancer stem cells from human breast tumors are involved in spontaneous metastases in orthotopic mouse models. Liu H, Patel MR, Prescher JA, Patsialou A, Qian D, Lin J, Wen S, Chang YF, Bachmann MH, Shimono Y, Dalerba P, Adorno M, Lobo N, Bueno J, Dirbas FM, Goswami S, Somlo G, Condeelis J, Contag CH, Gambhir SS, Clarke MF. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010 Oct 19;107(42):18115-20. PubMedID: 20921380; PMID: 20921380
Single-cell dissection of transcriptional heterogeneity in human colon tumors. Dalerba P, Kalisky T, Sahoo D, Rajendran PS, Rothenberg ME, Leyrat AA, Sim S, Okamoto J, Johnston DM, Qian D, Zabala M, Bueno J, Neff NF, Wang J, Shelton AA, Visser B, Hisamori S, Shimono Y, van de Wetering M, Clevers H, Clarke MF, Quake SR. Nat Biotechnol. 2011 Nov 13;29(12):1120-7. PubMedID: 22081019.
Recurrent deletion of CHD1 in prostate cancer with relevance to cell invasiveness. Huang S, Gulzar ZG, Salari K, Lapointe J, Brooks JD, Pollack JR. Oncogene. 2011 Dec 19. doi: 10.1038/onc.2011.590. [Epub ahead of print]. PubMedID: 22179824.
