Cord Blood Stem Cells

" Stem cell transplants are part of a therapy that can sometimes be used to save the lives of people who were seriously ill with certain diseases. Especially leukemia and lymphoma. First radiation chemotherapy or both are used to killed diseased cells in a patient's bone marrow. Then stem cells -- transplanted or transfused. To rebuild the patients capability to produce new blood cells. There are different types of stem cells. Those that can turn into blood cells are called -- toy addicts themselves."

" Since those are mother cells if you will bear the seeds that give rise to all blood elements so when we look at. The -- we have we have red blood cells but -- thousand platelets and they are derived from. Stem cells we talk about he -- clinics themselves. Doctors have different ways to harvest stem cells. There are many sources of themselves most commonly when we talk about themselves. And Mittal and you really took a bonus -- and so."

" Stem cells can also be collected from the bloodstream. Some researchers think a third source of blood should be utilized more often and that this could save many lives when bone marrow donors cannot be found."

" It's the blood that is. In the umbilical cord. And based on the way it's collected now is that after the child's the -- and vocal -- clamped and cut. And the placenta is deliver and the blood that is then. And vocal cord and placenta side as -- blood within the placenta. Equipment you need for various reasons it's very rich it and themselves. The T cells of the immune cells in -- tend to be more immature. And it's -- ready and available source of stem cells are currently has just scored."

" bone marrow is used for stem cell transplants. It is important that there be a perfect or close to perfect match with regard to certain proteins on the surface of the cells. Without a good match it is more likely that a patient experiences graft versus host disease. That's when the transplanted cells attack the patient's tissue. But researchers have found that the match does not have to be quite so good when cord stem cells are used."

" They all require matching the better of the match the better results. And cord blood. The degree of matching can be -- little more wiggle room scoreboard and there is a boom for."

" The use of cord blood for stem cell transplants in cases where the cells are not perfectly matched is still experimental. And there are some problems to overcome. Placenta is an umbilical cords don't yield much blood volume so transplants of cord blood have traditionally been used only for treating children. Another problem is that stem cells taken from cord blood tend to take longer to mature and adult stem cells taken from marrow or blood. That leaves patients who received radiation or chemotherapy for a longer period of time without healthy replacement white blood cells."

" downside is that this higher risk of complications. Every day you spend with the -- both sales and -- risk of infection. I was bleeding. And then there's the huge cost of sales --"

" If these problems are solved. And if research findings about cord blood are verified. Experts say many thousands of lives might be saved. That would happen if cord blood becomes a widely used alternative source to bone marrow for stem cell transplants."