National NeuroAIDS Tissue Consortium (NNTC)

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Coordinating Center
Emmes U.S.
Project Status
Active
Project Lifespan
03/31/2003
Objective

The National NeuroAIDS Tissue Consortium (NNTC) was established in 1998 with support from NIMH and NINDS as a multi-site data and tissue repository that collects and distributes well-characterized antemortem and postmortem tissue specimens with clinical and serological data from HIV-infected individuals.

The NNTC mission is to facilitate research on the effects of HIV infection by providing to qualified investigators high-quality, well-characterized tissue and/or data from patients with end-stage disease. Comprehensive neuromedical and neuropsychiatric data are collected antemortem and standardized postmortem protocols are followed to provide high quality tissue. Researchers can request tissues/fluids and clinical data from patients who have been characterized by:

  • degree of neurobehavioral impairment
  • neurological and other clinical diagnoses
  • history of drug use
  • antiretroviral treatments
  • blood and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) viral load
  • neuropathological diagnosis
  • raw and summary neuropsychological test scores
  • clinical laboratory results (i.e blood chemistries, urine toxicology)
  • gene expression data

As a resource to the greater scientific community, a query tool has been released online to allow investigators to easily search the consortium's specimen holdings based on a number of clinical criteria. Please click on the following link for access: Specimen Query Tool

Population

The NNTC targets individuals with end-stage HIV, but also collects information from HIV negative individuals who wish to donate tissues to the NNTC.

Centers
  • Texas NeuroAIDS Research Center - Galveston, TX
  • California NeuroAIDS Tissue Network - San Diego, CA
  • National Neurological AIDS Bank - Los Angeles, CA
  • Manhattan HIV Brain Bank - New York, NY
  • Statistics and Data Coordinating Center
    • The EMMES Corporation (Data Coordinating Center) - Rockville, MD
    • Indiana University School of Medicine (Statistics Coordinating Center) - Indianapolis, IN

For more information on NNTC sites, please visit the interactive Site Map.

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