Cord blood has proved itself, if correctly stored with rational criteria, an excellent source of stem cells for related and unrelated transplants. It has been recently proven that the factor which predicts the best the speed of engraftment in cord blood transplants in the dose of progenitor cells injected per kg of body weight of the recipient. This result has been obtained thanks to a careful ...

Each year there are over four million live births in the United States. Each birth produces umbilical cord blood stem cells, which are usually discarded. The author argues that rather than discarding the umbilical cord, this valuable resource of cord blood should be banked and used for research and therapeutic purposes. Umbilical cord blood could provide a solution to the critical need to find ...

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...

Umbilical cord blood (UBC) can be viewed as the most promising source of stem cells, in which collection cost is minimal and its benefits are immense. The cord blood is used to treat malignant and nonmalignant diseases; this is due to its progenitor characteristics know as stem cells.Its properties of being, immunologically immature and high plasticity has made it superior to other sources of s...

The first successful umbilical cord haematopoietic stem cell transplant was performed in 1988. The realization of the promise of umbilical cord blood (UCB) created an impetus to store this resource, which was for the most part simply discarded after the baby’s birth. While most experts agree that autologous use of UCB is unlikely at this point in time, private companies have realized the lucrat...

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The goal of the study is to analyze factors of website quality that could influence e-banking customer satisfaction in the Chinese commercial banking industry. Moreover, the paper also tries to explain the relationship between website quality and customer satisfaction, and to find some major variables for keeping high level e-banking customer satisfaction. The data demonstrated that website qua...