| Title |
The Sun Health Research Institute Brain Donation Program: Description and Eexperience, 1987–2007
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Cell and Tissue Banking, March 2008
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| DOI | 10.1007/s10561-008-9067-2 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Thomas G. Beach, Lucia I. Sue, Douglas G. Walker, Alex E. Roher, LihFen Lue, Linda Vedders, Donald J. Connor, Marwan N. Sabbagh, Joseph Rogers |
| Abstract |
The Brain Donation Program at Sun Health Research Institute has been in continual operation since 1987, with over 1000 brains banked. The population studied primarily resides in the retirement communities of northwest metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona. The Institute is affiliated with Sun Health, a nonprofit community-owned and operated health care provider. Subjects are enrolled prospectively to allow standardized clinical assessments during life. Funding comes primarily from competitive grants. The Program has made short postmortem brain retrieval a priority, with a 2.75-h median postmortem interval for the entire collection. This maximizes the utility of the resource for molecular studies; frozen tissue from approximately 82% of all cases is suitable for RNA studies. Studies performed in-house have shown that, even with very short postmortem intervals, increasing delays in brain retrieval adversely affect RNA integrity and that cerebrospinal fluid pH increases with postmortem interval but does not predict tissue viability. |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
| United States | 1 | 1% |
| Germany | 1 | 1% |
| Brazil | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 70 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 17 | 23% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 12 | 16% |
| Professor | 6 | 8% |
| Student > Master | 4 | 5% |
| Other | 3 | 4% |
| Other | 13 | 18% |
| Unknown | 19 | 26% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 13 | 18% |
| Neuroscience | 13 | 18% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 8 | 11% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 6 | 8% |
| Social Sciences | 3 | 4% |
| Other | 10 | 14% |
| Unknown | 21 | 28% |
Attention Score in Context
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