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Since 1971 and the opening of LMC, our group has been an intermediary
for a few various types of tissue donations. Here are examples
of those and many other tissue activities and links for your
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- Blood:
- transfusions: living-person blood, plasma,
and platelet donations (ARC, AABB)
- umbilical cord blood for stem cells (must
be obtained at birth):
- Unused Autologous Donor blood at LMC
is held until used or outdates
- Unused hemochromatosis registry phlebotomies
at LMC are discarded
- Donations for genetic research in such
as psoriasis
- Plasma/serum with high antibody
levels, induced or naturally
- Donated in blood programs
- For personal sale at serological
companies
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- Whole body:
- For medical school Willed Body Program:
bodies used for anatomy teaching; and, in some programs, some
parts possibly afterwards used for surgical instruction.
- Devel.
Biology & Anatomy Dept., USC School
of Med, Columbia, SC, Lisa Buchanan, 803-733-3369.
- Cell
Biology & Anatomy Dept., MUSC School
of Med., Charleston, SC, Dr. Litke,843-792-3521. [will not accept next-of-kin donations]
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- Postmortem (after
death):
- Transplantable living tissues:
- SCOPA:
843-763-7755 [has now become Lifepoint, see
below]
- Eyes:
Lions Club, West Columbia, SC 803-796-1304
- Sperm is rarely obtained in a case
of sudden unexpected death for in-vivo fertilization
of the new widow [A-00-17]
- Lifepoint: a
federally designated S. C. organ procurement
organization (OPO), & I know one of their
family support counselors (formerly SCOPA). 800-462-0755;
843-763-7755 (FAX 843-763-6393) 4200 Faber Place
Dr., Charleston, S. C. 29405
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- transplantable processed
cadaver tissues (skin, fascia, bone, joints):
- ARC: American
Red Cross
- CryoLife: Georgia firm
is largest processor of human tissue for use in living
patients.
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- research tissues:
- Duke
U., brains for Alzheimer's [FA-87-345;
VAL-18; A-87-813; A-90-888; BB-92-28 & 29; BB97-30]
- Harvard
U., "Harvard Brain Tissue
Resource Center," McLean Hospital [B99-4636; B93-2681]: many types of neurological disorders, including
restless legs syndrome (RLS
)
- UNC Chapel Hill, ALS spinal cord studies
919-966-1199 (an 8/02 case)
- Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) brain donation processing @ Mayo Clinic Jacksonville
- The
Autism Tissue Program (brain)
- NIH (brains in Parkinson's disease (1981)
- National Diabetes Research Interchange,
Philadelphia, Pa. (eyes)
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- tissues for test
reagent production:
- Pituitary glands from autopsies for growth
hormone production to National Pituitary Agency in
Boston [no longer as of <1990]
- Spleen of sarcoid patients for Kveim
antigen production to Alvin S. Teirstein, Mt. Sinai
Medical Center in NY, NY. (NEJM 292:859-60, 1975) [LMC-80-3357; A-80-549; LMC-81-1849; FA-84-111] [no longer as of
1984]
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- Medical School teaching
specimens:
- Bagged demonstration specimens
- Mounted museum specimens
- lasticized teaching specimens
- Surgical specimens:
- autologous (for self re-implantation):
- bone
- parathyroid (renal hyperparathyroid cases)
- accidentally amputated parts
- homologous (for donation to kinfolk, friend, stranger): bone marrow,
kidney, part of liver.
- tissue pieces for in-lab quality control of special
stains
- tumor tissue for homologous vaccine production
(we sent a few cases) to Ariel Hollinshead, PhD,
George Washington U. Med. Ctr., Wash., D. C. (up
to about 1990)
- Cat-scratch lymph node for production
of Hanger-Rose skin test antigen (we sent a few
cases): Southwest Foundation for Research & Education,
San Antonio, Tex. (Ann. Int. Med. 55:903-10,
1961; Int. J. Dermatology 17:656-658, 1978) [no
longer as of 1987]
- Parathyroid adenoma tissue to Laboratory
Procedures, Inc., Kalamazoo, Mich. (F. P. Biella,
PhD.) to produce anti-PTH test reagent [no longer
as of about 1984]
- Placentae:
- For component extraction
(were usually kept frozen in L&D and
value about $0.25 per case)
- Phamaceutical firms: extract
hormones, chemicals, proteins, gamma
globulin (such as Merieux Institut in
Lyons, France)
- Residue is called "placental extract" and
used by cosmetics companies (valued at
$3000-4000/pound in 1982)
- Amnion membranes have been used
to cover burns
- Umbilical cords have been used
to obtain umbilical arteries for artery bypass
surgery since 1982
- Frozen cord blood storage for
preserving stem cells
- Research tissue:
- UNOS:
800-292-9537 "live-organ" donations...you
might turn out to be a "match" for someone
in your church, for example
- CHTN:
pre-planned research protocols
- LifeSpan
Biosciences Human Tissue Bank
- NDRI:
800-222-6374
- IIAM:
800-486-4426
- AGF:
800-300-5433
- Local GI & prostate efforts
with USC medical school researchers (Dr.
Fowke; Dr. Bostic) in Columbia.
- The S. C. Biorepository System: hospital surgical pathology areas co-operating to quickly freeze tumor tissue for donation to this program to support molecular research on tumors [we began July 2007 with L07-5971].
- Links:
- Miscellaneous notes:
- Xenografts are tissues from another
animal used in humans
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