Is cord blood worth saving for public or private banking?
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Is cord blood worth saving for public or private banking?
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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عنوان ژورنال: Blood Research
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2287-979X,2288-0011
DOI: 10.5045/br.2015.50.1.3