Custom Services
Please contact our office to provide us with the specifics of your order.
Customers appreciate our customization services. For instance, we can have blood drawn under your specific protocols, store the samples in your own tubes, and then have them sent back to you. Here are some of the custom services we offer:
- Custom clinical products
- Custom packaging
- Expanded custom process capabilities
BioChemed Services will do routine intact organ collection or special custom collections of normal and disease state human tissues, following your protocol. We can provide tissues from patients with cancer; patients with cardiovascular, autoimmune, or endocrine diseases; and pregnant women.
- Need us to perfuse tissues with pre-determined fluids to speed time to manufacturing or manipulation?
- Do you require tissues that are flash frozen, formalin-fixed, or fresh?
- Want assurances that all tissues and fluids were ethically procured from, and tested by, licensed and FDA-regulated facilities?
- We can provide tissues for same-day or next-day delivery.
You can save time and enhance cell viability by providing us with your specific requests.
Standard Services
Affinity Purification (AFP)
Serum or plasma processed for specific analyte removal. This is a very selective, but costlier method best when global removal of analytes is not desired.
Charcoal Stripped Plasma (CSP)
Plasma processed with activated charcoal for global removal of free, low molecular weight hormones. Protein bound hormones are generally not removed by charcoal stripping and can present a problem in some assays.
Charcoal Stripped Serum (CSS)
Serum processed with activated charcoal for global removal of hormones.
Defibrinated/Delipidized Charcoal Stripped Serum (DDCSS)
Plasma converted to serum, with subsequent removal of lipids. It is then processed with activated charcoal for global free hormone removal.
Defibrinated/Delipidized Plasma (DDP)
Plasma converted to serum, with subsequent removal of lipids. This renders the serum optically clear.
Defibrinated Plasma (DFP)
Plasma converted to serum by active and/or passive processes.
Delipidized Plasma/Serum
Either serum (DLS) or plasma (DLP) can be processed to remove endogenous lipids. This helps clarify the serum and reduces turbidity with freeze/thaw cycles. Please note that either delipped product may not behave as a true serum or plasma.
Diafiltration (DIA)
Serum or plasma that is actively dialyzed against buffered solutions for analyte removal and/or addition of certain electrolytes.
Gamma Depleted
(Universally Depleted) (GDS)
Processed for total immunglobulin removal.
Homogenization (HOM)
Thoroughly homogenized tissues are reduced to small particles of uniform size and consistency for various research purposes.
Lyophilization (LYPH)
Products (e.g., blood plasma) are freeze-dried without destroying their physical structure. The process includes freezing the substance, then warming it in a vacuum so that the ice sublimes.
Sterile Filtration (SF)
Product is processed through a 0.22 micron absolute filtration scheme for removal of bioburden.
Ultrafiltration Plasma/Serum
Serum (UFS) or plasma (UPF) processed for protein removal of certain molecular sizes. This optimizes serum or plasma for protein binding studies.
