Directed sibling cord blood banking for transplantation: The 10-year experience in the National Blood Service in England

Stem Cells

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2087-2093

  Smythe, Jon ^a,b   Armitage, Sue ^b   McDonald, Dorothy ^a   Pamphilon, Derwood ^b   Guttridge, Martin ^a   Brown, Juliette ^c   Green, Ann ^c   Brown, Colin ^c   Warwick, Ruth M ^d   Lankester, Alan ^a   Fehily, Deirdre ^b   Contreras, Marcela ^b   Navarrete, Cristina ^c,e   Watt, Suzanne M ^a,f  

^a Stem Cells and Immunotherapies Department   (United Kingdom)

^b NHS BLOOD AND TRANSPLANT   (United Kingdom)

^c Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Department   (United Kingdom)

^d Tissue Services Department   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accreditation; Directed cord blood banking; Stem cells; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD BANK; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD STORAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; SIBLING; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; UNITED KINGDOM;

BLOOD BANKS; BLOOD DONORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; DIRECTED TISSUE DONATION; ENGLAND; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASES; HUMANS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SIBLINGS; TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34547914504     PISSN: 10665099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1634/stemcells.2007-0063     Document Type: Article

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