@article{anestakis2013clinicopathological,
  title = {Clinicopathological Guidelines for the Management of Brain and Tissue Banking in Greece},
  author = {Doxakis Anestakis and Savvas Petanidis and Athanasios Salifoglou and Magda Tsolaki},
  year = 2013,
  url = {https://ibimapublishing.com/articles/RNIJ/2013/121634/},
  journal = {Research in Neurology: An International Journal},
  volume = 2014 (2014),
  pages = 13,
  doi = 10.5171/2014.121634,
  abstract = {Over the past decade, research has shown that studies of human brain tissue are essential to increasing our understanding of the nervous system function and mechanisms. Recently, postmortem human brain tissue has contributed to the development of a genetic test for Huntington's disease (HD) and a treatment for Parkinson's disease (PD). In this regard, neurochemical and anatomical studies focusing on postmortem brain tissue today can provide details of a disease process and potentially its etiology. Concurrently, development of new molecular and neurobiological methods as well as new computer-assisted quantification techniques can assist brain tissue research. That collective prospect, in turn, leads to an increased demand for postmortem tissue in medical research and thus the need for the establishment and management of a brain and tissue bank. For a brain bank to be organized and managed, however, certain standardized and agreed upon guidelines must be met, involving protocol-based tissue handling and collection of clinical data. The fundamental tenets of such an organized brain and tissue bank in Greece are analyzed in the framework of (inter)national networks and placed in perspective so as to support its establishment that merits substantive contributions to multidisciplinary neurological disease research worldwide.},
  keywords = {Brain and tissue Bank - neurodegenerative diseases - Alzheimer's disease- Guidelines},
  note = Article ID: 121634
}