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Find out how ACSR can help your
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The National Cancer Institute-funded AIDS and Cancer Specimen
Resource (ACSR) is the country’s leading nationwide multi-site source for
tissue and biological samples serving investigators working in the fields of
AIDS, cancer, virology, immunology, pathology, epidemiology, tumor biology,
assay development, as well as others. The ACSR is a repository for HIV-infected
human materials from a wide spectrum of HIV-related or associated diseases,
including cancer, and from appropriate HIV-negative controls.
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View and find specimens |
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In addition to operating a large existing specimen bank. ACSR
serves the research community as a resource of well documented disease
associated specimens, whether currently in the ACSR bank or actively acquired
for approved investigations. |
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Contact us so that we can assist you in your search for
specimen. Our trained specimen search specialist will not only search the ACSR
database, but can help obtain specimens from numerous other sources to meet
your research criteria. |
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| What's New... |
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ACSR will be exhibiting at the ASCO Annual Meeting at Hollywood, FL - October 30- November 1, 2008. Please visit us for inquiries and goodies! |
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Rwandan collection: Specimens from a cohort of HIV positive and HIV negative Rwandan women including tissues (cervical cancers), CVLs and PBMCs. |
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The ACSR has cell cultures of AIDS-related primary effusion lymphoma (PEL) at (2.7x 107 cells/ml), which are unmanipulated. These cells are currently stored at -180*C in 90% FBS + 10% DMSO. There is accompanying PCR results from extracted DNA of the unmanipulated cells. |
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Manhattan HIV Brain Bank (MHBB) & ACSR partnership. MHBB specimens are in the form of fixed, embedded tissues that can be used for micro-arrays. Prospective collections will include frozen tissue and fluids. MHBB also tracks longitidinual clinical evaluations. |
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Tissue Micro Array (TMA) - ACSR has constructed a large cell lymphoma array containing over 70 distinct cases. Cases range from 1982-2005, HIV+ and HIV-, both genders. Please contact us for more details. |
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ICMAOI - ACSR will be exhibiting at the 10th International Conference on Malignancies in AIDS and Other Acquired Immunodeficiencies (ICMAOI) at Bethesda, MD - October 6 & 7, 2008. Please visit us for inquiries and goodies! |
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New collaboration with the National Neurological AIDS Bank (NNAB). AIDS related neurological disease specimens will be available to ACSR applicants. |
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Thailand Plasma Collection - Over 300 cases of HIV+ and HIV- plasma from Thailand patients with 2 draws over a six month period. |
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