Protecting the Health and Safety of Cell and Tissue Donors. [PDF]
ISBT Sci Ser, 2015 Centres involved with collecting the starting material for cell and tissue therapies are obligated to protect the recipient's and donor's health and safety.
Stroncek DF, England L.
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COVID-19 positivity rate in corneal tissue donors - A cause for concern! [PDF]
Indian J Ophthalmol, 2021 Purpose: To determine the postmortem positivity for COVID-19 among voluntary eye donors who had been certified to have died of non-COVID-19 causes.
D'Souza S +7 more
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Comparison of Total Immunoglobulin G in Ante- and Postmortem Blood Samples from Tissue Donors. [PDF]
Transfus Med Hemother, 2021 Background: A serology testing for infectious diseases (HIV, hepatitis B and C, syphilis) is mandatory in tissue donors. In many donors postmortem blood is the only sample available. Even though serological tests and nucleic acid amplification tests (NAT)
Larscheid G +6 more
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Evaluation of Two Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay Kits for Chikungunya Virus IgM Using Samples from Deceased Organ and Tissue Donors. [PDF]
Clin Vaccine Immunol, 2016 The identification of nearly 3,500 cases of chikungunya virus (CHIKV) infection in U.S. residents returning in 2014 and 2015 from areas in which it is endemic has raised concerns within the transplant community that, should recently infected individuals ...
Prince HE, Altrich ML, Nowicki MJ.
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Retrospective study of COVID-19 seroprevalence among tissue donors at the onset of the outbreak before implementation of strict lockdown measures in France. [PDF]
Cell Tissue Bank, 2021 Germain N +6 more
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Probability of Viremia with HBV, HCV, HIV, and HTLV among Tissue Donors in the United States [PDF]
New England Journal of Medicine, 2004 BACKGROUND Tissue-banking organizations in the United States have introduced various review and testing procedures to reduce the risk of the transmission of viral infections from tissue grafts.
Shimian Zou +3 more
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Cellular Characteristics and Protein Signatures of Human Adipose Tissues from Donors With or Without Advanced Coronary Artery Disease [PDF]
BiomedicinesBackground/Objectives: Perivascular adipose tissue (PVAT) exerts a paracrine effect on blood vessels and our objective was to understand PVAT molecular signatures related to cardiovascular disease.
Caitlin P. S. Ellis +8 more
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Electron donors in tissues. [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1968 John A. McLaughlin
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Declining trend of HTLV-1 among organ/ tissue donors in Iranian Tissue Bank between 2014–2021 [PDF]
RetrovirologyBackground Human T-cell Lymphotropic Virus type-1 (HTLV-1) infection is associated with serious disorders, including Adult T-cell Leukemia/Lymphoma (ATLL) and HTLV-1–associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP).
Arash Letafati +11 more
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Tissue Banking: Relationship with Blood Donor and Organ Donor Card Status [PDF]
ISRN Urology, 2012 Understanding the relationships among altruistic health acts may serve to aid therapeutic research advances. In this paper, we report on the links between two such behaviours—donating blood and carrying an organ donor card—and willingness to donate ...
Fitzpatrick, Patricia E. +2 more
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