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From:Paediatric Nursing (Vol. 20, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedHealthcare professionals collecting umbilical cord blood must now obtain a licence from the Human Tissue Authority and conform to new standards of care. The changes represent the first ever regulation of cord blood...
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From:Medical Decision Making (Vol. 28, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedKeywords: cost-benefit analysis; fetal blood; umbilical cord blood; bone marrow transplantation; hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. 243 Policy Rounds: Cost-Effectiveness of Cord Blood BankingUse of...
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From:Nature Medicine (Vol. 16, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedJun 16 For individuals with adult leukemia, umbilical cord blood transplants may be a viable alternative to bone marrow or peripheral blood progenitor cell grafts, especially if a human leukocyte antigen...
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From:Pediatrics (Vol. 119, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn recent years, umbilical cord blood, which contains a rich source of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells, has been used successfully as an alternative allogeneic donor source to treat a variety of pediatric...
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From:Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy (Vol. 15, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedPatents on genetic information have little to do with the public good and much to do with private greed. Most people assume that their bodies are their own--and no one else's. They assume that their blood is theirs,...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 10, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedBackground Cord blood is an important source of stem cells. However, nearly 90% of public cord blood banks have declared that they are struggling to maintain their financial sustainability and avoid bankruptcy. The...
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From:Environmental Health Perspectives (Vol. 121, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Tobacco-smoke, airborne, and dietary exposures to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) have been associated with reduced prenatal growth. Evidence from biomarker-based studies of low-exposed populations...
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From:Italian Journal of Pediatrics (Vol. 48, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Cathelicidin/LL-37 plays a significant role in the human immune defense reaction. Preterm human immature organs being exposed to inflammation-induced injury was the critical denominator leading to the common...
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From:British Medical Journal (Vol. 304, Issue 6835) Peer-ReviewedThe association between maternal serum haemolytic antibody concentration and outcome of pregnancy has been recognised from the 1950s and measurement of maternal anti-D antibody has been the traditional method of...
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From:Stem Cells InternationalPeer-ReviewedCord blood hematopoietic stem cells (CB-HSCs) transplantation has been increasing gradually with facing the limitation of insufficient quantity of HSCs in each CB unit. Therefore, efficient expansion methods which can...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 13, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedUnrelated umbilical cord blood transplantation (UCBT) is an alternative to provide transplants in children with acute leukemia or myelodysplastic syndrome who lack a related donor. Intravenous Busulfan (Bu) combined...
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From:Journal of Hematology & Oncology (Vol. 11, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Thiotepa-busulfan-fludarabine (TBF) is a widely used conditioning regimen in single umbilical cord blood transplantation (SUCBT). More recently, it was introduced in the setting of non-T cell depleted...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedChondroitin sulfate (CS) and its isomeric variant, dermatan sulfate (DS), are complex glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) which are ubiquitous components of the extracellular matrix in various tissues including the brain. CS...
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From:Issues in Law & Medicine (Vol. 25, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT: 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...
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From:Pediatrics (Vol. 118, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedOBJECTIVE. Infantile Krabbe disease, a rare neurodegenerative disorder that leads to rapid demyelination, dysmyelination, and death in the first 2 years of life, is responsive to treatment with umbilical cord blood...
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From:Journal of PregnancyPeer-ReviewedVitamin D levels of pregnant women and their neonates tend to be related; however, it is unknown whether there are any subgroups in which they are not related. 25-Hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] was measured in prenatal...
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From:Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine (Vol. 146, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor.--Alloimmunization from fetomaternal hemorrhage remains an ongoing cause of hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn. (1) Though failure rates of postnatal prophylaxis have decreased to less than 1% to...
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From:CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal (Vol. 186, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedUntil recently, there was just one place for cord blood at the British Columbia Women's Hospital & Health Centre in Vancouver --and that was in the medical waste bin. But as of mid-2014, much of the blood contained in...
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From:Journal of the Turkish-German Gynecological Association (Vol. 13, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Objective: To compare the effects of oxytocin and dinoprostone used in labor induction on fetal blood gas parameters. Material and Methods: This prospective randomized trial involved 108 women who...
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From:Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Chorioamnionitis is a risk factor for future asthma development. Animal models of chorioamnionitis demonstrate increased T.sub.H17-to-T.sub.reg ratios associated with proinflammatory cytokine elevations....