Is there any reason to prefer cord blood instead of adult donors for hematopoietic stem cell transplants?

As cord blood (CB) enables rapid access and tolerance to HLA mismatches, number of unrelated cord blood transplants have reached 30 000. Such transplant activity has been the result of international accreditation programs maintaining highly qualified CBUs reaching more than 600 000 CBUs stored world...

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Main Author: Meral eBeksac
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Medicine
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmed.2015.00095/full