This list includes major disease categories from which fluid specimens are currently available in the Center’s inventory. Please see the information on how to obtain specimens from the Center or contact us to see availability of specific diagnoses of specimens of your research interest.
DISEASE | TOTAL CASES | FEMALE | MALE | DIAGNOSES |
Arthritis | 8 | 2 | 6 | Arthritis, Degenerative Joint Disease, Gout, Osteoarthritis, Cervical, Rheumatic Disease, Temporal Arthritis |
Ataxia | 105 | 18 | 87 | Ataxia, Cerebellar Ataxia, Dilantin Ataxia, Freidreich's Ataxia, Ataxia Gait, Spastic Cerebellar Ataxia, Spinocerebellar Ataxia |
Atrophy-CNS | 65 | 12 | 53 | OPCA (Olivo-Ponto-Cerebellar ), Brain Atrophy, Cerebellar Atrophy, LLE Atrophy, Severe Atrophy, Degeneration, Cerebellar Degeneration, CNS Degeneration, Cord Degeneration, Progressive Cord Degeneration |
Cancer-CNS | 93 | 19 | 74 | Angioma, Anaplastic Oligodendroglioma, Astrocytoma, Brain Metastasis CA, Meningeal CA, Craniopharnygioma, Glioblastoma, Glioma, Meningioma, Neurofibromatosis, Pinealoma |
Cancer-non-CNS | 69 | 8 | 61 | Breast CA, Colon CA, Liver CA, Esophagus CA, Lung CA, Ovary CA, Pancreas CA, Prostate CA, Renal CA, Stomach CA, Throat CA, Tongue CA, Urinary Bladder CA, Hodgkin's disease, Hypernephroma, Leukemia, Lymphoma, Lymphosarcoma, Histiocytic Lymphoma, Melanoma, |
Cerebrovascular Disease | 742 | 108 | 634 | Amaurosis fugax, Amaurosis, Acute Anoxic Neuronal injury, Aneurysm, Cerebrovascular accident, Coma, Convulsive disorder, Drop attack, Epilepsy, Myoclonic Progressive Epilepsy, Temp.lobe Epilepsy, Cerebrovascular Accident, Cystic malacic changes, Hemorrhag |
Dementia | 1175 | 207 | 968 | Alzheimer's disease, Binswanger's disease, Cortico-basal degeneration, Dementia, Dementia Alzheimer's type, Lewy body Dementia, Multi-infarct Dementia, Senile Dementia, Vascular Dementia, Possible Vascular Dementia, Lewy body disease, Mentally retarded, O |
Gulf War Synd | 6 | 0 | 6 | Gulf War Synd. |
Head Trauma | 45 | 5 | 40 | Concussion, Post Cushion Synd. |
Heart Disease | 231 | 28 | 203 | Congestive heart failure, Coronary artery disease, Heart disease, Heart transplant, Myocardial Infarction, Mitral Valve Replacement |
Immune System | 137 | 11 | 126 | Lupus/collagen vascular disease |
Infection-CNS | 2080 | 213 | 1867 | Brain Abscess, AIDS, Acquired anhydrous, Spinal Arachnoiditis, Coccidiomycosis, Cystecercosis, Encephalitis, Granulomatosis, Herpes simplex, Meningitis, Meningo-encephalitis, Metencephalitis, Mycosis, Myelitis, Myeloencephalitis, SSPE |
Infection-non-CNS | 68 | 4 | 68 | Bursitis, Hepatitis, Urinary Tract Infection, Labyrinthitis, Polyneuritis, Polio syndrome, Pulmonary TB, Tonsillitis, Torticolis, Toxoplasmosis, Trypanosomiasis, Varicella zoster |
Inherited-CNS | 412 | 58 | 354 | Arterovenous malformation, Autism, Batten's disease, Charcot Marie Tooth, Huntington's Disease, Tay-Sach disease, Hemophilia |
Kidney | 15 | 9 | 6 | Pneonthizide dystatic kidney, Pyelonephritis, Renal Failure |
Lung | 37 | 5 | 32 | Asthma, Acute Bronchitis, COPD, Emphysema, Pneumonia, Pulmonary congestion, Sarcoid, Sarcoidosis |
Metabolic | 28 | 14 | 14 | Diabetes mellitus, Diabetic neuropathy, Hemopoeisis, Hyponatremia, Hypothyroidism |
Motor Neuron Dis | 129 | 28 | 101 | ALS, Basal ganglia disorder, Dystonia |
Movement Disorder | 364 | 75 | 289 | Essential tremor, Extrapyramidal dis., Parkinsonism, Parkinson's disease, Shy-Drager syndrome, Torticolis, Tremor |
Multiple Sclerosis | 9220 | 7831 | 1389 | Multiple Sclerosis, MS 1° progressive, MS 2° progressive, MS 2° progressive-relapse, MS(multiple sclerosis), MS probable, MS (prog, RP & prog), MS RR in relapse, MS RR in rem, MS (stationary, prog), MS (stationary, RP), MS stationary - relapse |
Muscle | 15 | 2 | 13 | Atrophy, muscular, Polymyositis, Prog. degen. neuromuscular dis. |
Narcolepsy | 6 | 1 | 5 | Limb Dystrophy, Myotonic dystrophy |
Normal | 596 | 246 | 350 | Normal |
Other | 618 | 224 | 394 | Compression Fracture, Temporal Fracture, Post cushion synd. |
Pain | 39 | 6 | 33 | Headache, Migraine, Back Pain, Facial Pain, Hemisensory Pain, Lower Extremities Pain |
Psychiatric | 781 | 163 | 618 | Alcohol abuse, Anxiety reaction, Depression, Bipolar Depression, Major Depression, Manic Depression, Hallucination, Hysteria, Korsakoff's syndrome, Paranoid's syndrome, Post traumatic stress disorder, Psychosis, Psychosomatic disorder, Schizophrenia, Suic |
Toxicity | 9 | 1 | 8 | Blackout spells, Loss of consciousness |
Trauma | 78 | 12 | 66 | Syncope, Hg poisoning, Cord Compression, Concussion |