fresh / frozen muscle sample

[Guest guest]

I was reading about muscle biopsy. It says that they take the

sample to the lab in a saline soaked gauze if it's fresh, and thet's

what they did with mine. Hopefully that means it was fresh.

If the lab is what matters, what are the best labs? (of course I

hope I won't need another one done, but just in case)

Kim

> It is the lab that is important, not who actually does the

surgery. If

> the lab is set up to do fresh, they can test for more things than

a

> frozen bx could be tested for. The take the fresh sample and run

down

> to the lab and start harvesting mitochondria. Chemical reactions

don't

> occur after the sample is flash frozen.

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