Umbilical Cord Blood Banking and Transplantation

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Ballen, Karen (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Σειρά: Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine,
• Θέματα: Life sciences.; Blood transfusion.; Stem cells.; Regenerative medicine.; Tissue engineering.; Life Sciences.; Stem Cells.; Regenerative Medicine/Tissue Engineering.; Blood Transfusion Medicine.

This comprehensive volume discusses the current scope of umbilical cord blood transplantation (UCBT), including recent controversies and future developments for improving clinical outcomes. Its twenty chapters introduce new applications in regenerative medicine and discuss the latest scientific, reg...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1 Applications of Umbilical Cord Blood Derived Stem Cells in Vascular Medicine
• 2 Regenerative Potential of Cord Blood
• 3 Quality Control in Cord Blood Banking
• 4 Maternal HLA typing and Cord Blood Unit Choice
• 5 Optimizing Donor and Cord Blood Unit Selection for Banking and Transplantation
• 6 Cord Blood Transplantation for Pediatric Hematologic Malignancies: Indications, Mechanisms, and Outcomes
• 7 Results of Cord Blood Transplantation in Children with Non-Malignant Hematologic Conditions
• 8 Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation for Inherited Metabolic Diseases
• 9 Myeloablative Single-Unit Cord Blood Transplantation in Adults
• 10 Quantitative and Qualitative Immune Reconstitution Following Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation
• 11 Thymic Regeneration after Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation: Mechanisms, Measurements and Implications on Anti-viral Immunity
• 12 Cord Blood Transplantation in the East Mediterranean Region
• 13 Targeting Homing to Enhance Engraftment following Umbilical Cord Blood Stem Cell Transplantation
• 14 Cord Blood Ex-Vivo Expansion
• 15 Intra-Bone Marrow Transplant of Cord Blood Cells: A Transplant approach that tries to Optimize Seeding Efficiency and Trafficking of Hematopoietic Stem Cells
• 16 Haplo Cord Transplantation : Overcoming the Limitations of Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation
• 17 Studies Comparing Haploidentical and Cord Blood Transplantation
• 18 Comparison of Umbilical Cord Blood to Adult Related and Unrelated Donors
• 19 Disease Specific Analysis of Cord Blood Transplantation for Adults and Clinical Results of Single and Double Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation
• 20 Selection of the Optimal Cord Blood Unit.