Why the cord blood is so valuable?
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.
