Requests for Tissue

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The Medical and Scientific Advisory Council is composed of renowned experts in multiple specialties.
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Brain and Tissue Bank for Developmental Disorders at the University of Maryland in Baltimore is a tissue bank established to further research aimed at improving the understanding, care, and treatment of developmental disorders such as dystonia.

The tissue repository currently contains over 60,000 specimens as frozen and fixed tissue. The total number of cases in the Bank is over 3,000. Over 300 disorders are represented.  Dystonia donors are especially well represented with a total of 59 cases. In addition, control tissue is available from a wide demographic range.

For further information, please visit the website:www.btbank.org. Researchers interested in receiving tissues are encouraged to contact Robert Vigorito or Rob Johnson at 800-847-1539 or 410-706-1755.


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