A blood sample, frozen cancer sample, formalin-fixed cancer sample and a pedigree will be requested on each dog. DNA will be extracted from the frozen tissue and the blood. The fixed tissue will be used for diagnosis and classification of the cancer. From normal cell to cancer cell. All organs in your dog are composed of cells.
Cells are tiny units that can only be seen with a microscope.
Thousands of cells make up each organ in your dog's body. The energy for all cells is supplied by organelles called mitochondria. All cells manufacture proteins using organelles called ribosomes. The nucleus of every cell contains between 60,000 and 100,000 genes. Among those 60,000-plus genes are approximately 100 genes that control cell division.