Tissue Resources/Immunopathology/Molecular Assays

UAB在收集、处理、储存和供应各种人类生物材料方面拥有丰富的经验。 乳腺组织，以支持乳腺孢子研究。新鲜的、冷冻的和石蜡组织制品可以 以及组织学服务。乳腺孢子已经建立了一个良好的银行 特征性乳腺肿瘤标本和匹配的未受累标本， 他们的组织被用于遗传学和其他类型的研究。通过 2005年10月，核心研究中心从1,168名手术切除的患者中获得了研究标本。 乳腺疾病;超过4，000个乳腺或相关组织标本，包括约1，500个标本 已储存在冷冻固体组织库中; 2）已处理成石蜡块 3,000多个乳腺标本，包括1,300个癌标本。组织阵列已经构建 从这些块以及从诊断石蜡块; 3）提供了冷冻，石蜡处理 和/或用于孢子壁内和壁外研究者的显微解剖标本。核还 为研究人员提供了多种实验方法，包括光学显微镜， 动物和人类组织和细胞学材料免疫细胞化学解释以及 检测细胞和邻近组织内的基因产物。调查人员通常可以使用技术 仅适用于人类诊断病理学，包括组织显微切割、组织阵列、抗体 阵列，免疫电镜，计算机化细胞形态分析，特殊组织学服务， 原位杂交，蛋白质组学技术，包括多维电泳，ELISA，多重 免疫测定（Luminex）、SELDI/MALDI-质谱和流式细胞术。核心允许 使用一套共用的试剂和集中执行的程序， 对同一乳腺癌病例的研究比较。调查人员免于重复 基础工作，允许利用现有资源进行更富有成效的工作，并加速实验性 时间表 总之，该核心有助于研究人员在乳腺癌研究中实现他们的目标;具体而言， 提供完成研究项目所需的人体组织样本， 为SPORE研究者的研究提供方法论支持。

UAB has extensive experience in collecting, processing, storing, and supplying a wide range of human breast tissues to support Breast SPORE research. Fresh, frozen, and paraffin preparations of tissues can be supplied as well as histology services. The Breast SPORE 1) has established a bank of well characterized breast tumor specimens and matching uninvolved specimens from patients who have given specific informed consent for their tissues to be used in genetic and other types of research. Through October 2005, the Core has obtained research specimens from 1,168 patients with surgically resected diseases of the breast; over 4,000 specimens of breast or related tissues, including about 1,500 specimens of breast neoplasia, have been stored in a bank of frozen solid tissues; 2) has processed to paraffin blocks over 3,000 breast specimens, including 1,300 carcinoma specimens. Tissue arrays have been constructed from these blocks as well as from diagnostic paraffin blocks; 3) has provided frozen, paraffin processed and/or microdissected specimens for SPORE intramural as well as extramural investigators. The Core also offers investigators access to multiple experimental methods including light microscopic and immunocytochemical interpretation of animal and human tissues and cytologic materials and methods to detect gene products within cells and adjacent tissues. Investigators have access to techniques usually available only for human diagnostic pathology, including tissue microdissection, tissue arrays, antibody arrays, immunoelectron microscopy, computerized cytomorphometric analysis, special histology services, in situ hybridization, proteomic techniques including multidimensional electrophoresis, ELISA, multiplex immunoassay (Luminex), SELDI/MALDI-mass spectroscopy and flow cytometry. The Core permits the utilization of a shared set of reagents and centrally performed procedures that permits cross project comparisons of research on the same cases of breast cancer. Investigators are freed from duplication of basic work, allowing more productive work with the available resources and acceleration of experimental timetables. In summary, this Core aids investigators to reach their goals in breast cancer research; specifically, it provides samples of human tissues needed to complete research projects and aids in the research by providing methodological support for the research of SPORE investigators.