Biological Specimen Banks

"Biological Specimen Banks" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Facilities that collect, store, and distribute tissues, e.g., cell lines, microorganisms, blood, sperm, milk, breast tissue, for use by others. Other uses may include transplantation and comparison of diseased tissues in the identification of cancer.

Descriptor ID	D018070
MeSH Number(s)	N02.278.065
Concept/Terms	Biological Specimen Banks Biological Specimen Banks Specimen Banks, Biological Bank, Biological Substance Banks, Biological Substance Biological Specimen Bank Substance Bank, Biological Substance Banks, Biological Biological Substance Banks Bank, Biological Specimen Banks, Biological Specimen Specimen Bank, Biological Biological Substance Bank

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Health Care [N]
Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services [N02]
Health Facilities [N02.278]
Biological Specimen Banks [N02.278.065]

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2004	1	0	1
2012	1	0	1
2014	3	0	3
2015	2	0	2
2016	2	0	2
2017	2	0	2
2018	1	1	2
2019	1	1	2
2020	1	0	1
2021	1	1	2
2022	1	0	1
2024	0	1	1
2025	2	0	2

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Dodds KN, Fattori V, Andrews NA, Appleyard CB, Christianson JA, Gomez R, McAllister SL, Missmer SA, Nagel J, Nunez-Badinez P, Rogers MS, Saunders PTK, Tejada MA, Vincent K, Hummelshoj L, Bruner-Tran KL, Greaves E. WERF Endometriosis Phenome and Biobanking Harmonisation Project for Experimental Models in Endometriosis Research (EPHect-EM-Pain): methods to assess pain behaviour in rodent models of endometriosis. Mol Hum Reprod. 2025 Jul 03; 31(3).

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Burns KA, Peterse D, Appleyard CB, Chandler R, Guo SW, Pearson A, Persoons E, Anglesio MS, Rogers MS, Sharpe-Timms KL, Vriens J, McAllister SL, Dodds KN, Cousins FL, Hummelshoj L, Missmer SA, Bruner-Tran KL, Greaves E. WERF Endometriosis Phenome and Biobanking Harmonisation Project for Experimental Models in Endometriosis Research (EPHect-EM-Homologous): homologous rodent models. Mol Hum Reprod. 2025 Jul 03; 31(3).

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Mart?nez-Peinado N, Gabald?n-Figueira JC, Rodrigues Ferreira R, Carmen Thomas M, L?pez MC, Cremonini Ara?jo-Jorge T, Alarc?n de Noya B, Ber?n S, Ramsey J, Losada Galv?n I, Schijman AG, Gonz?lez Mart?nez A, Mariano Ruiz A, Rojas G, Magalh?es Saraiva R, Noya-Gonz?lez O, G?mez A, Maldonado RA, Pinto J, Torrico F, Scandale I, Ag?ero F, Pinazo MJ, Gasc?n J, Hasslocher-Moreno AM, Alonso-Padilla J. A guide for the generation of repositories of clinical samples for research on Chagas disease. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2024 Aug; 18(8):e0012166.

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Fakunle ES, Pratola VG, Peterson SE, Loring JF, Madanat H. The Promoting Equity in Stem Cell Genomics Survey. Regen Med. 2022 04; 17(4):203-218.

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Vald?s-Fern?ndez BN, Duconge J, Espino AM, Rua?o G. Personalized health and the coronavirus vaccines-Do?individual genetics matter? Bioessays. 2021 09; 43(9):e2100087.

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Huang JY. Representativeness Is Not Representative: Addressing Major Inferential Threats in the UK Biobank and Other Big Data Repositories. Epidemiology. 2021 03 01; 32(2):189-193.

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Reyes-Pablo AE, Campa-C?rdoba BB, Luna-Viramontes NI, Ontiveros-Torres M?, Villanueva-Fierro I, Bravo-Mu?oz M, S?enz-Ibarra B, Barbosa O, Guadarrama-Ort?z P, Garc?s-Ram?rez L, de la Cruz F, Harrington CR, Mart?nez-Robles S, Gonz?lez-Ballesteros E, Perry G, Pacheco-Herrero M, Luna-Mu?oz J. National Dementia BioBank: A Strategy for the Diagnosis and Study of Neurodegenerative Diseases in M?xico. J Alzheimers Dis. 2020; 76(3):853-862.

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Blanchard EL, Argyropoulou D, Zurla C, Bhosle SM, Vanover D, Santangelo PJ. Quantification and Localization of Protein-RNA Interactions in Patient-Derived Archival Tumor Tissue. Cancer Res. 2019 10 15; 79(20):5418-5431.

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Tsao MS, Carbone M, Galateau-Salle F, Moreira AL, Nicholson AG, Roden AC, Adjei AA, Aubry MC, Fennell DA, Gomez D, Harpole D, Hesdorffer M, Hirsch FR, Liu G, Malik S, Nowak A, Peikert T, Salgia R, Szlosarek P, Taioli E, Yang H, Tsao A, Mansfield AS. Pathologic Considerations and Standardization in Mesothelioma Clinical Trials. J Thorac Oncol. 2019 10; 14(10):1704-1717.

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Huang JY, Labrecque JA. From GWAS to PheWAS: the search for causality in big data. Lancet Digit Health. 2019 07; 1(3):e101-e103.

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