MesobanK UK: an international mesothelioma bioresource

Malignant pleural mesothelioma causes the greatest societal burden of all the asbestos-related diseases. Progress in better understanding tumour biology will be facilitated by the availability of quality-assured annotated tissue. MesobanK has been created to establish a bioresource of pleural mesoth...

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Veröffentlicht in:Thorax 2016-04, Vol.71 (4), p.380-382
Hauptverfasser: Rintoul, Robert C, Rassl, Doris M, Gittins, Jacki, Marciniak, Stefan J
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Malignant pleural mesothelioma causes the greatest societal burden of all the asbestos-related diseases. Progress in better understanding tumour biology will be facilitated by the availability of quality-assured annotated tissue. MesobanK has been created to establish a bioresource of pleural mesothelioma tissue linked to detailed anonymised clinical data. When complete, the bioresource will comprise a 750-patient tissue microarray and prospectively collected tissue, blood and pleural fluid from 300 patients with mesothelioma. Twenty-six new cell lines have also been developed. MesobanK meets all appropriate ethical and regulatory procedures and has recently opened to requests for tissue and data.
ISSN:0040-6376
1468-3296
DOI:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2015-207496