Therapeutic Areas
TriStar's repository of formalin fixed and frozen human tissues & tissue arrays cover the following therapeutic areas:
Cancer
- Solid Tumors
- Hematological Malignancies
Neurodegenerative diseases
- Alzheimer's disease
- Parkinson's disease
- Stroke
- Vascular dementia
Inflammatory diseases
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Psoriasis Arthritis,
- Detritus Synovialitis / CPPD etc.
The following types of biological materials can be provided for academic / commercial research:
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- Tissue micro array slides & blocks
- Large sections
- Tissue blocks (paraffin embedded)
- Tissue blocks (OCT embedded)
- Snap-frozen tissue
New Arrays
- Hormone refractory prostate cancers
- Prostate cancer bone metastases
- NSCLC primary & matched distant metastases
- Pancreatic cancer primary & matched metastases
- Alzheimer's disease
Contract Research Services
- Large scale multi-tumor (>3500 donor samples) & normal human tissue (>600 donor samples) analysis
- Large scale tumor prognosis analysis
- Large-scale analysis of primary tumors and matched metastases
- GLP tissue cross reactivity studies (human, cynomolgus monkey, rat)
- Gene amplification prognosis studies by FISH
- Pharmacological screening services (cell based assays)
- Cardiotoxicity screening of compounds using EHT (engineered heart tissues)