Stem Cell Processing (Stem Cells in Clinical Applications)

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P.V. Pham (ed.), Stem Cell Processing, Stem Cells in Clinical Applications,
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-40073-0_8


Chapter 8

Cord Blood Stem Cell Banking


Helen C. Steel , Marco Alessandrini , Juanita Mellet , Carla Dessels ,
Ahmed K. Oloyo , and Michael S. Pepper


Abbreviations

AABB American Association of Blood Banks
ALL Acute lymphoblastic leukemia
AML Acute myeloid leukemia
EBMT European Society for Blood and Bone Marrow Transplantation
GCSF Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor
GVHD Graft-versus-host disease
HIE Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy
HLA Human leukocyte antigen
HSC Hematopoietic stem cell
HSCT Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
MSC Mesenchymal stem cell
MUD Matched unrelated donor
PBSC Peripheral blood stem cell
UC Umbilical cord
UCB Umbilical cord blood
UCB SCB Umbilical cord blood stem cell bank


H. C. Steel • M. Alessandrini • J. Mellet • C. Dessels • A. K. Oloyo • M. S. Pepper (*)
Department of Immunology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Institute for Cellular and Molecular
Medicine and South African Medical Research Council Extramural Unit for Stem Cell
Research and Therapy , University of Pretoria , Pretoria , South Africa
e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected];
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