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Why the cord blood is so valuable?
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This article will show you the value of cord blood.
In the umbilical cord blood there are many stem cells appointed to the establishment of blood. These cells are able to develop into different types of blood cells and cells of the immune defense system; same time these cells are able to multiply indefinitely.
In the child still in the womb, these blood stem cells are located mainly in the liver, where the formation of blood during the first three months of pregnancy. Only towards the end of pregnancy the blood stem cells move through the bloodstream, in the bone marrow, where found their child. The bone marrow remains after the main body deputy to the formation of blood. This migration of hematopoietic stem cells from bone marrow to liver is the reason why, at the time of birth, these cells are found in large numbers in the umbilical cord blood.
The blood stem cells - with the express consent of their parents - can be collected after the birth and separation from the cord (from the placenta and umbilical cord), then frozen and stored in blood banks for this purpose.
These banks for the blood from the umbilical cord from anonymous donations and not related (public) must not be confused with banks cord blood commercial (private) that offer a fee to freeze the cord blood of newborn for a possible cure for any disease future of the child (because there is possible to treat diseases with stem cells). And for more information about one of these banks, try to visit Cryo-Cell, or just use Google to find the relevant one.
In the umbilical cord a treasure to be retained
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We talk about stem as a promise for medicine of the future. But they are now ten years that these progenitor cells, taken from umbilical cord blood, is stored and used for treating leukemia. The transplantation of cord blood is an alternative to more widespread marrow transplant. With three advantages: there are more likely to find a compatible donor, the levy is painless and blood can be stored at one hundred and ninety-six degrees below zero even for a decade.
Not always, however, the mother is willing to donate the doors open in front of him. It must first go to a hospital enabled. In Italy there are over one hundred rooms childbirth ready to collect blood placenta. When the cord has been cut, the blood that are left inside is squeezed into a bag. From here is sent to a bank, where it is analyzed and stored. The operations analysis and control should be made in short notice (within 36 hours from the levy) and require about a day’s work in the laboratory. When a bank is congested, or in the closing days workday, you may not be able to receive other donations. Despite having chosen a hospital enabled and having all the requirements to donate, a mother is then faced with a refusal for technical reasons. The amount of stem contained in a given is not very high. It is generally sufficient only for individuals around fifty kilos of weight, mainly children.
