UCSF VIable Tissue Acquisition Lab (VITAL) Core
De-identified deceased-donor tissues, abdominal Skin (2x10cm) and adipose.
What they do
- Services
- De-identified deceased-donor tissues
- Abdominal Skin (2x10cm)
- Adipose
- Adrenal glands (Bilateral)
- Aortic segments
- Aorto-renal branches
- Arch vessels
- Brain Hemisphere
- Brain samples (Cortical Regions 2-3g)
- Carotid body
- Cerebellum, (2-3 g)
- Choroid plexus
- Coronary arteries
- Dura Sinus
- Eye (Whole, unilateral)
- Heart (whole/segment)
- Hypothalamus (uni- or bilateral)
- Hypothalamus slab
- Infrarenal aortic tissue
- Large Intestine (full/seg)
- Liver Segments
- Lung (Unilateral)
- Lymph Nodes
- Ovary (Bilateral)
- Parathyroid
- Parotid salivary gland
- Partial Pancreas
- Peripheral Blood A 5-ml tube of (whole blood)
- Serum (5-10 ml)
- Skull Bone marrow (<10 g )
- Small Intestine (full/seg)
- Spleen
- Striatum (5-10gr)
- Substantia Nigra
- Testis (Bilateral)
- Thymus
- Unilateral Entire Hippocampus
- Vertebral Body (2 from any location)
- Whole Brain
- Whole Kidney
- Whole uterusx
- Multi-omics
- Single-cell RNA sequencing
- CITE-seq
- ATAC-seq
- Access for academic researchers
- Immune cell biology
- Non-immune cell biology
- Next-generation methods
- Research requests