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http://www.braintumourbank.ca/pages/about.html

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented May 10, 2017. The mission of the Canadian Virtual Brain Tumour Bank (CVBTB) is to facilitate clinical, molecular and translational research through the provision of well-characterized tissue linked to clinical data and to become a standardized national tissue resource whereby scientific needs are met, addressed and accelerated through a common public accessible core the CVBTB. Recognizing the need to encourage systemic banking of brain tumor tissues throughout the country and to link banks of brain tumor tissue samples with academic and scientific institutions that require these samples, the CVBTB was established. Under the sponsorship of Schering Plough Canada Inc. and in association with the Canadian Brain Tumour Consortium (CBTC), the CVBTB looks to act as a resource for all researchers to provide them with information on the types of brain tumor tissue samples available and to direct them to the tumor tissue banking sites holding these samples. The CVBTB also looks to provide information on standard operating procedures regarding aspects of tumor tissue banking such as tissue accrual, storage and shipment and the processing of blood samples such as serum and lymphocytes. The CVBTB currently consists of four brain tumour tissue banking sites (Toronto Western Hospital - Toronto, Ontario; London Health Sciences Centre - London, Ontario; McGill University - Montreal, Quebec; University of Calgary - Calgary, Alberta) and is continuously looking for more institutions to be a part of the CVBTB. If your institution would like to become a part of the CVBTB, please contact the CVBTB coordinator.

Proper citation: Canadian Virtual Brain Tumour Bank (RRID:SCR_004221) Copy   

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http://www.essentialtremor.us/

Finding a cure for any neurological disorder begins with the scientific study of the disorder''s causes, processes, and development in the brain. For essential tremor (ET), rigorous study of this kind had not been undertaken until 2003, when the Essential Tremor Centralized Brain Repository (ETCBR) was established at Columbia University. For the past five years, brain tissue from ET donors has been collected, processed and compared alongside age-matched control brains at the ETCBR, and already several significant findings have been made. However, there is still much to learn and a severe shortage of ET brains for scientific study. If you have been diagnosed with essential tremor, donating your brain tissue in the hours immediately after your death is of utmost importance in providing crucial information about what causes ET. Direct analysis of the shape and number of nerve cells and their content will provide medical researchers with the information they need in order to understand this complex illness. By advancing our medical knowledge of ET, the gift of brain tissue is a central piece of the puzzle in the search to develop better treatments and find a cure.

Proper citation: Essential Tremor Centralized Brain Repository (RRID:SCR_004464) Copy   

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http://www.mscenter.org/research/tissue-bank/

Scientists throughout the world depend on the Rocky Mountain MS Center Tissue Bank to supply high quality human brain tissue and cerebral spinal fluid to support their research. Funded in part by the National MS Society, the Tissue Bank is one of only four MS-related tissue banks in the nation. The Tissue Bank has distributed specimens to more than 160 investigators worldwide and over 1,600 people have consented to be donors after death. Tissue banks provide a unique bridge between those who live with MS and the scientific community. Studies conducted with samples from the Center have led to several important discoveries and 130 publications. While deeply personal, the decision to donate has far-reaching effects as scientists unlock the mysteries of multiple sclerosis. If you would like to donate, arrangements must be made in advance because it is important that tissue is taken within a few hours of death. For more information on making a donation, visit the How To Donate section of this website and contact the Rocky Mountain MS Center Tissue Bank at 303.788.4030 x111.

Proper citation: Rocky Mountain MS Center Tissue Bank (RRID:SCR_004361) Copy   

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https://www.bannerhealth.com/research/locations/sun-health-institute/programs/body-donation

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on January 11, 2023. An autopsy-based, research-devoted brain bank, biobank and biospecimen bank that derives its human donors from the Arizona Study of Aging and Neurodegenerative Disease (AZSAND), a longitudinal clinicopathological study of the health and diseases of elderly volunteers living in Maricopa county and metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona. Their function is studied during life and their organs and tissue after death. To date, they have concentrated their studies on Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, heart disease and cancer. They share the banked tissue, biomaterials and biospecimens with qualified researchers worldwide. Registrants with suitable scientific credentials will be allowed access to a database of available tissue linked to relevant clinical information, and will allow tissue requests to be initiated., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

Proper citation: Brain and Body Donation Program (RRID:SCR_004822) Copy   

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http://brainbank.ucla.edu/

A biomaterial supply resource which collects, stores, and distributes donated tissue to research scientists around the world. Collection occurs through the an anatomical donor program which accepts tissue donation from people with neurological/ psychiatric disorders. The Center also provides a continuous boost to biomedical research by providing high quality and quantity of pre- and post-mortem brains, spinal cords, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), serum, blood cells and urine to use in investigations of neurological and psychiatric diseases. Scientists without a clinical site may use the Center''s readily available, high quality banked specimens.

Proper citation: Human Brain and Spinal Fluid Resource Center (RRID:SCR_004811) Copy   

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http://www.slu.edu/x23032.xml

A brain bank which provides brain tissue for interdisciplinary research in neurochemical, anatomical, epidemiological and clinical aspects of Alzheimer's disease. It provides brain tissue from Alzheimer's patients and healthy elderly brain donors to investigators who are helping further the understanding of Alzheimer's disease through research. It also gives family members of Alzheimer's patients the opportunity to obtain a confirmed diagnosis through brain autopsy. Through this program, families of individuals with either a clinical diagnosis, or those with suspected Alzheimer's disease, grant permission for a brain autopsy to be performed immediately after death.

Proper citation: St. Louis University Alzheimer's Brain Bank (RRID:SCR_005132) Copy   

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http://www.med.umkc.edu/psychiatry/nbtb/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented August 31, 2016. The UMKC Neuroscience Brain Tissue Bank and Research Laboratory has been established to obtain, process, and distribute human brain tissue to qualified scientists and clinicians dedicated to neuroscience research. No other living organ approaches the human brain in complexity or capacity. Healthy, it astounds and inspires miracles. Diseased, it confounds and diminishes hope. The use of human brain tissue for research will provide insight into the anatomical and neurochemical aspects of diseased and non-diseased brains. While animal models are helpful and necessary in understanding disease, certain disorders can be more efficiently studied using human brain tissue. Also, modern research techniques are often best applied to human tissue. We also need samples of brain tissue that have not been affected by disease. They help us to compare a 'normal' brain with a diseased one. Also, we have a critical need for brain donations from relatives who have genetically inherited disorders. Tissue preparation consists of fresh quick-frozen tissue blocks or coronal slices (nitrogen vapor frozen; custom dissection of specific anatomic regions) or formalin-fixed coronal slices (custom dissection of specific anatomic regions).

Proper citation: UMKC Neuroscience Brain Tissue Bank and Research Laboratory (RRID:SCR_005148) Copy   

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http://www.tnp.pitt.edu/pages/donationfrm_mb.htm

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on March 19,2024. Brain tissue donation is a valuable contribution to mental health research. It enables scientists to investigate how the normal brain works, and how the brain is disturbed when it is affected by schizophrenia, depression, bipolar (manic depressive) disease or other related disorders. The Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh has established a brain tissue bank to which brain tissue can be donated at no expense. The gift of brain tissue enables scientists to conduct research designed to understand causes, to develop new treatments, and ultimately to find cures for diseases that affect the brain. Brain tissue donation is a gift that makes it possible for researchers to study various types of mental disorders. Donations of brain tissue from individuals without these disorders are also needed to establish comparisons with brain samples from individuals who have these disorders. Any legally competent adult or guardian may indicate during life their interest in donating brain tissue after death. Next-of-kin either of healthy individuals or of those with psychiatric disorders may give consent to donate brain tissue following the death of a loved one. Brain tissue is removed during autopsy at a morgue or hospital and is transported to the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for examination and study.

Proper citation: University of Pittsburgh Brain Tissue Donation Program (RRID:SCR_005028) Copy   

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https://adrc.mc.duke.edu/index.php/research/brain-bank

A research repository of human brains with neurological disorders and normal controls, recruited through the Autopsy and Brain Donation Program coordinator. The Kathleen Price Bryan Brain Bank contains brains from patients with Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Huntington's disease, Muscular Dystrophy, and other neurological and dementing disorders. The brain tissue is subjected to a detailed neuropathological evaluation and then stored as fixed and frozen hemispheres, paraffin blocks and histological slides. After receipt of an IRB approved request, tissue is supplied to investigators at Duke University, major medical centers and pharmaceutical companies across the United States and worldwide.

Proper citation: Duke University Kathleen Price Bryan Brain Bank (RRID:SCR_005022) Copy   

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https://www.lawsonresearch.com/clinical_research/brain_tumour_bank.htm

To aid researchers, the Brain Tumour Tissue Bank, located located in London Health Sciences Centre in London, Ontario, Canada has been collecting human brain tumor specimens and matching clinical data for neuro-oncology research in Canada and internationally since its establishment in 1991. A wide variety of primary and secondary brain tumors, spinal tumors, peritumors and normal brain tissues are available for molecular, protein, enzyme and immunohistochemical studies. Interested researchers can review the information provided at the website and can contact the tissue bank for information about what is currently available. In order to complete a request, an application must be completed.

Proper citation: Lawson Brain Tumour Tissue Bank (RRID:SCR_004881) Copy   

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http://www.neurosci.ucsd.edu/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented August 31, 2016. The Laboratory of Experimental Neuropathology is engaged in the study of neurodegenerative disease, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and the dementia of HIV encephalitis. It contains a large bank of materials available to fellow investigators including images, publications, and lab safety. Fellow Investigators and Collaborators may request materials from the brain bank. Technologies employed by the laboratory include immunocytochemistry, neurochemistry, molecular genetics, transgenic models of disease, and imaging by scanning laser confocal microscopy.

Proper citation: UCSD Experimental Neuropath Laboratory (RRID:SCR_004906) Copy   

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http://www.mssm.edu/research/programs/manhattan-hiv-brain-bank/

Biorepository of tissues and fluids relevant for the neurologic, neuropsychologic, psychiatric and neuropathologic manifestations of HIV infection, linked to medical records and an on-going clinical trial for research use by the scientific community. The MHBB conducts a longitudinal, observational study that follows a group of HIV-infected individuals who have agreed to be fluid and organ donors for the purposes of AIDS research. They are currently the largest, multidisciplinary neuroAIDS cohort in New York City, the epicenter of the US HIV epidemic. Research participants undergo regular neurologic, neuropsychologic, and psychiatric evaluations, and provide body fluid samples that are linked to clinical information. Upon their demise, study participants become organ donors. This program has supplied clinical information, tissue, and fluid samples to over 70 qualified AIDS researchers across America, Europe and Australia. In fulfilling its resource mission, the MHBB functions as part of the National NeuroAIDS Tissue Consortium (NNTC). MHBB provides a means by which people living with HIV can be engaged in the struggle to improve our knowledge about HIV infection and the damage it causes to the body.

Proper citation: Manhattan HIV Brain Bank (RRID:SCR_010520) Copy   

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http://med.stanford.edu/narcolepsy.html

The Stanford Center for Narcolepsy was established in the 1980s as part of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Today, it is the world leader in narcolepsy research with more than 100 articles on narcolepsy to its name. The Stanford Center for Narcolepsy was the first to report that narcolepsy-cataplexy is caused by hypocretin (orexin) abnormalities in both animal models and humans. Under the direction of Drs. Emmanuel Mignot and Seiji Nishino, the Stanford Center for Narcolepsy today treats several hundred patients with the disorder each year, many of whom participate in various research protocols. Other research protocols are conducted in animal models of narcolespy. We are always looking for volunteers in our narcolepsy research studies. We are presently recruiting narcoleptic patients for genetic studies, drug clinical trials, hypocretin measurement studies in the CSF and functional MRI studies. Monetary gifts to the Center for Narcolepsy are welcome. If you wish to make the ultimate gift, please consider participating in our Brain Donation Program. To advance our understanding of the cause, course, and treatment of narcolepsy, in 2001 Stanford University started a program to obtain human brain tissue for use in narcolepsy research. Donated brains provide an invaluable resource and we have already used previously donated brains to demonstrate that narcolepsy is caused by a lack of a very specific type of cell in the brain, the hypocretin (orexin) neuron. While the brain donations do not directly help the donor, they provide an invaluable resource and a gift to others. The real answers as to what causes or occurrs in the brain when one has narcolepsy will only be definitively understood through the study of brain tissue. Through these precious donations, narcolepsy may eventually be prevented or reversible. We currently are seeking brains from people with narcolepsy (with cataplexy and without), idiopathic hypersomnia and controls or people without a diagnosed sleep disorder of excessive sleepiness. Control brains are quite important to research, as findings must always be compared to tissue of a non-affected person. Friends and loved ones of people who suffer with narcoleps may wish to donate to our program to help fill this very important need. Refer to the Movies tab for movies of Narcolepsy / Cataplexy.

Proper citation: Stanford Center for Narcolepsy (RRID:SCR_007021) Copy   

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https://scicrunch.org/scicrunch/data/source/nlx_154697-3/search?q=*

A virtual database currently indexing available cell lines from: Coriell Cell Repositories, International Mouse Strain Resource (IMSR), ATCC, NIH Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Registry, NIGMS Human Genetic Cell Repository, and Developmental Therapeutics Program.

Proper citation: Integrated Cell Lines (RRID:SCR_008994) Copy   

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http://dictybase.org/

Model organism database for the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum that provides the biomedical research community with integrated, high quality data and tools for Dictyostelium discoideum and related species. dictyBase houses the complete genome sequence, ESTs, and the entire body of literature relevant to Dictyostelium. This information is curated to provide accurate gene models and functional annotations, with the goal of fully annotating the genome to provide a ''''reference genome'''' in the Amoebozoa clade. They highlight several new features in the present update: (i) new annotations; (ii) improved interface with web 2.0 functionality; (iii) the initial steps towards a genome portal for the Amoebozoa; (iv) ortholog display; and (v) the complete integration of the Dicty Stock Center with dictyBase. The Dicty Stock Center currently holds over 1500 strains targeting over 930 different genes. There are over 100 different distinct amoebozoan species. In addition, the collection contains nearly 600 plasmids and other materials such as antibodies and cDNA libraries. The strain collection includes: * strain catalog * natural isolates * MNNG chemical mutants * tester strains for parasexual genetics * auxotroph strains * null mutants * GFP-labeled strains for cell biology * plasmid catalog The Dicty Stock Center can accept Dictyostelium strains, plasmids, and other materials relevant for research using Dictyostelium such as antibodies and cDNA or genomic libraries.

Proper citation: Dictyostelium discoideum genome database (RRID:SCR_006643) Copy   

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https://school.wakehealth.edu/departments/pathology/comparative-medicine/vervet-research-colony

NIH funded national research resource to provide biomedical research community with access to US born, known age, pedigreed, genomically sequenced, pathogen free Caribbean origin vervet monkeys also known as African green monkeys. Provides access to animals, extensive multisystem clinical phenotyping, sample and data repositories, expertise in use of nonhuman primate models for translational studies, serves as platform for training veterinarians and other professionals in biomedical research, husbandry, clinical care, and the colony behavioral management.

Proper citation: Wake Forest Vervet Research Colony (RRID:SCR_006678) Copy   

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http://www.parkinsons.org.uk/content/parkinsons-uk-brain-bank

A brain bank of the United Kingdom which collects human brains for Parkinsons disease research. The collection is comprised of brain, spinal cord and a sample of cerebrospinal fluid from people with and without Parkinson's after death. Researchers can fill out a brain tissue request form to order samples from the bank.

Proper citation: Parkinsons UK Brain Bank (RRID:SCR_007030) Copy   

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http://www.chr7.org

Database containing the DNA sequence and annotation of the entire human chromosome 7, encompassing nearly 158 million nucleotides of DNA and 1917 gene structures, are presented; the most up to date collation of sequence, gene, and other annotations from all databases (eg. Celera published, NCBI, Ensembl, RIKEN, UCSC) as well as unpublished data. To generate a higher order description, additional structural features such as imprinted genes, fragile sites, and segmental duplications were integrated at the level of the DNA sequence with medical genetic data, including 440 chromosome rearrangement breakpoints associated with disease. The objective of this project is to generate a comprehensive description of human chromosome 7 to facilitate biological discovery, disease gene research and medical genetic applications. There are over 360 disease-associated genes or loci on chromosome 7. A major challenge ahead will be to represent chromosome alterations, variants, and polymorphisms and their related phenotypes (or lack thereof), in an accessible way. In addition to being a primary data source, this site serves as a weighing station for testing community ideas and information to produce highly curated data to be submitted to other databases such as NCBI, Ensembl, and UCSC. Therefore, any useful data submitted will be curated and shown in this database. All Chromosome 7 genomic clones (cosmids, BACs, YACs) listed in GBrowser and in other data tables are freely distributed.

Proper citation: Chromosome 7 Annotation Project (RRID:SCR_007134) Copy   

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http://jaxmice.jax.org/list/ra1642.html

Produce new neurological mouse models that could serve as experimental models for the exploration of basic neurobiological mechanisms and diseases. The impetus for the program resulted from the recognition that: * The value of genomic data would remain limited unless more information about the functionality of its individual components became available. * The task of linking genes to specific behavior would best be accomplished by employing a combination of different approaches. In an effort to complement already existing programs, the Neuroscience Mutagenesis Facility decided to use: a random, genome-wide approach to mutagenesis, i.e.N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea (ENU) as the mutagen; a three-generation back-cross breeding scheme to focus on the detection of recessive mutations; behavioral screens selective for the detection of phenotypes deemed useful for the program goals. The resulting mutant mouse lines have been available to the scientific community for the last five years and over 700 NMF mice have been sent to interested investigators for research; these mutant mouse lines will remain available as frozen embryos (which can be re-derived on request) and can be ordered through the JAX customer service at 1-800-422-6423 (or 207-288-5845). The results of the work of the Neuroscience Mutagenesis Facility and that of two other neurogenesis centers, i.e. The Neurogenomics Project at Northwestern University, and the Neuromutagenesis Project of the Tennessee Mouse Genome Consortium, can also be seen at Neuromice.org, a common web site of these three research centers; in addition, information about all mutants produced by these groups has been recorded in MGI.

Proper citation: JAX Neuroscience Mutagenesis Facility (RRID:SCR_007437) Copy   

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http://www.nia.nih.gov/research/dab/aged-rodent-colonies-handbook

Colonies of barrier-raised, Specific Pathogen-Free (SPF) rodents under contractual arrangement with commercial vendors, specifically for use in aging research. They are not available for use as a general source of adult animals for unrelated areas of research. Animals from the NIA aged rodent colonies are available to investigators at academic and non-profit research institutions under the terms described on the Eligibility Criteria page. Orders must be submitted through the online rodent ordering system (ROS) (http://arc.niapublications.org/acb/stores/1/). Available strains: * Inbred Rats: Fischer 344 (F344), Brown Norway (BN) * Hybrid Rats: F344xBN F1 (F344BN); * Inbred Mice: BALB/cBy, CBA, C57BL/6, DBA/2 * Hybrid Mice: CB6F1 (BALB/cBy x C57BL/6), B6D2F1 (C57BL/6 x DBA/2) * Caloric Restricted Rats: F344 (males only), F344BN F1 (males only) * Caloric Restricted Mice: C57BL/6; B6D2F1 (males only)

Proper citation: NIA Aged Rodent Colonies (RRID:SCR_007317) Copy   

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