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Platforms
Brain samples
COORDINATOR: DR. JAVIER MEANA MARTÍNEZ (G16- Universidad del País Vasco, UPV/EHU)
In 2015, this structure went on making use of the brain samples available from the collections of the Banco de Tejidos Neurológicos de la Fundación Sant Joan de Déu, the Biobank of the Fundación Marqués
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de Valdecilla and the Collection of Brain Samples of the Universidad del País Vasco.
Some of the noteworthy achievements in 2015 are:
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New cases incorporated IntraCIBERSAM donations Total donations Publications
After the break for legal adaptation, which entailed a technical stoppage in the processes for collecting samples, the process for obtaining new psychiatric cases and controls was got under way.
In 2015, the different biorepositories went on with their technical improvement, allowing the availabil-
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ity of new technologies for use by CIBERSAM re- searchers. One example of this is that the UPV/EHU collection has got under way the quantification of markers of the quinurenin channel in post-mortem human brain.
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