Umbilical Cord Blood (UCB) Stem Cell (SC) is an adult stem cell type. During a baby development large amounts of stem cells are in his peripheral blood. Those cells will move to their final “home”: the inside portion of large bones. This natural phenomena occurs around the ninth month of pregnancy.
UCB is a source of hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) with a high proliferative and repopulating capacity, CB HSC have some intrinsic biological advantages over bone marrow or mobilized peripheral blood HSC.UCBHSC can be successfully transplanted for the treatment of various hematologic and nonhematologic diseases (Broxmeyer et al.1989,Gluckman et al.1997).
These cord blood cells can be preserved for years and used for:
- Allogeneic transplants
- Autologous transplants and even
- Tissue repair - as these cells have the ability to differentiate into other tissue types
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