English term (edited): Tissue repository operations

A tissue repository operation allows the researchers to use a system to search and check the availability of tissue specimens for their research. It will also provide clinical data, histopathology reports and laboratory test results.

http://www.med.nus.edu.sg/path/tissues/welcome.htm

The concept of a tissue repository may include two kinds of samples: a) those collected with the expressed purpose of distribution to investigators, and b) those collected by individual investigators, and not originally intended to be shared with others, but which are subsequently shared as part of a repository. Any collection which contains specimens that are potentially identifiable and are distributed to someone other than the investigator (or, in the case of a multi-investigator study, other than any of the identified investigators) making the collection, regardless of the original intent, may be considered to be a repository.

http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/funding/policies/repos-gl.htm

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