Commercial cord blood banking: Public cord blood banking should be more widely adopted
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Cord blood banking.
Cord blood banks are institutions designed to store umbilical cord [3] blood (UCB) stem cells [4]. UCB, a source of hematopoietic stem cells [5] (HSCs), has garnered attention from scientific and medical communities since its first successful use in a hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) in 1988. The umbilical cord [3] is the lifeline by which the growing fetus [6] is nourished by the moth...
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which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Cord blood (CB) contains hematopoietic stem cells that can both reproduce themselves and turn into mature blood cells. Everyone agrees that CB cells can be lifesaving in patients with various malignant or non-malignant hema-tologic diseases, immune deficienc...
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Umbilical cord blood is a valuable source of haematopoietic stem cells. There is little information about whether religious affiliations have any bearing on attitudes to and decisions about its collection, donation and storage. The authors provided information about umbilical cord blood banking to expert commentators from six major world religions (Catholicism, Anglicanism, Islam, Judaism, Hind...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.333.7574.919-b