Education
LifeShare Blood Centers offers a variety of continuing education opportunities including access to selected AABB teleconferences, annual half-day Blood Bank Workshops in Lake Charles, La. and Shreveport, La., and a Specialist in Blood Bank Technology/Transfusion Medicine (SBBT/TM) Education Program by distance learning.
Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells (HUVEC)
Storage
20C or in vapor state LN2 until ready to use
Cell Count
20C or in vapor state LN2 until ready to use
Sterility
Products are tested and found to be negative for mycoplasma and endotoxin.
Infectious Diseases
Donor tested and found to be negative for HIV 1, HIV 2, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, HTLV 1, WNV, Zika, and Syphilis
Methods
Human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC) are primary cells isolated from the vein of the umbilical cord. They are a model system for studying endothelial cell function, with applications including hypoxia, inflammation, oxidative stress, response to infection, and both normal and tumor-associated angiogenesis.