Establishing and managing a periodontal biobank for research: the sharing of experience

• Main Authors: Vaithilingam, R.D., Safii, S.H., Baharuddin, N.A., Karen-Ng, L.P., Saub, R., Ariffin, F., Ramli, H., Shariffudin, A., Hidayat, M.F.H., Raman, R., Chan, Y.K., Rani, N.A., Rahim, R.A., Shahrudidin, N., Cheong, S.C., Bartold, P.M., Zain, R.B.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Blackwell Publishing 2015
• Subjects: RK Dentistry
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/12602/1/Establishing_and_managing_a_periodontal_biobank_for_research_the_sharing_of_experience.pdf; http://eprints.um.edu.my/12602/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24930489
• Institution: Universiti Malaya

Periodontal bio-repositories, which allow banking of clinically validated human data and biological samples, provide an opportunity to derive biomarkers for periodontal diagnosis, prognosis and therapeutic activities which are expected to improve patient management. This article presents the establi...