Other Service Lines
At LifeShare Blood Centers, our mission is to provide quality blood, blood components, and related services for use by patients in an efficient, cost-effective manner. While the most common form of this is the safe management of volunteer blood donation, processing and supply it to the communities we serve, there are additional expert services LifeShare provides.
In every service, our quality and procedures are held to the highest standards. We realize that we are an important part of a bigger circle that depends on many components to provide blood-related services and products. With an ongoing focus on quality, LifeShare performs routine audits of key processes to ensure the safety, potency, and purity of every blood product. A quarterly summary of our key quality indicators can be viewed here: LifeShare Quality Indicators.
With leading experts, we are able to offer therapeutic procedures for those in our community, derivative products, and internationally recognized immunohematology reference laboratory and scientific support services.
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.