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Ombilical Cord Blood
After the baby's birth, usually the umbilical cord is discarded along with the placenta. However, researchers have found that blood retrieved from the umbilical cord is a rich source of primary cells. The cells are primordial cells that produce non-specialists all other blood cells, including platelets and red blood cells coagulants and whites. Like the donated bone marrow, umbilical cord blood can be used to treat various genetic disorders affecting the blood and the immune system, leukemia and certain cancers, and some inherited disorders biochemists. To date, more than 45 disorders that can... (Read more)
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Does the transplant of umbilical cord blood is still experimental?
The use of primary cells of cord blood for transplantation holds great promise but this area of medical science is still mostly experimental. Only in 1988, French researchers performed the first successful transplant with primary cells with cord blood. The transplant was taken from a newborn to a brother five years with a syndrome that included severe anemia skeletal defects (Fanconi anemia). Since then, cord blood donor with family relationship or wrongly, has been successfully transplanted into approximately 2,000 people worldwide. Doctors of the Mattel Children's Hospital of the University... (Read more)
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How cord blood is collected and stored?
Parents who are expecting a baby can make the necessary arrangements before they are born to take the umbilical cord blood in immediately after birth (within 15 minutes of birth) and for which the store for his own use in a blood bank business. They can also donate to a public bank to make it available to anyone who needs a transplant and for which it is compatible. If parents use a commercial bank, the initial costs range between $ 250 and $ 1,500, plus an annual storage charge of $ 50 to $ 100. Some insurance companies are beginning to cover these costs.
While public banks pay the process... (Read more)
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