A History of Cord Blood Banking and Transplantation
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A History of Cord Blood Banking and Transplantation
My interest in blood stem cells and cord blood dates back to my fellowship in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at Duke. During my fellowship, I worked on the development of novel antileukemia drugs based on analogs of purine metabolism and treated a teenage patient with refractory T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia with a novel antileukemia drug, 20-deoxycoformycin, an inhibiter of adenosine deam...
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This policy statement is intended to provide information to guide pediatricians, obstetricians, and other medical specialists and health care providers in responding to parents' questions about cord blood donation and banking as well as the types (public versus private) and quality of cord blood banks. Cord blood is an excellent source of stem cells for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation i...
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عنوان ژورنال: STEM CELLS Translational Medicine
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2157-6564
DOI: 10.1002/sctm.17-0075