Expressed sequence tag analysis of adult human optic nerve for NEIBank: Identification of cell type and tissue markers

Table 6 Human donor tissue characteristics.

Number	Age	Sex	Cause of Death	Time to dissection (hr)
1	41	F	Liver abscess	39
2	62	M	Pneumonia	30
3	74	F	CHF	36
5	74	M	Prostate Ca.	48
4	76	F	Pulm. Emb.	30
6	80	M	Pneumonia	27
7	92	M	CVA	36

Optic nerve samples were obtained from 7 human donors (column 1). The age of each donor is shown in column 2, and their sex in column 3. Cause of death is indicated (column 4) and the time from demise to dissection, isolation and storage is shown in column 5.

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