A strategy of splitting individual high volume cord blood units into two half subunits prior to processing increases the recovery of cells and facilitates ex vivo expansion of the infused haematopoietic progenitor cells in adults

International Journal of Laboratory Hematology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 124-132

  Papassavas, A C ^a,b   Gioka, V ^a   Chatzistamatiou, T ^a   Kokkinos, T ^a   Anagnostakis, I ^a   Gecka, G ^a   Redoukas, I ^a   Paterakis, G ^b   Stavropoulos Giokas, C ^a,b  

^a BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

^b G GENNIMATAS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cell dose; Cord blood banking; Volume reduction

Indexed keywords

CD34 ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CYTOLOGY; BLOOD DONOR; CD34 SELECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONOR SELECTION; EX VIVO STUDY; FREEZING; HEMATOPOIETIC CELL; HLA MATCHING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARDIZATION; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; VALIDATION PROCESS;

BLOOD BANKS; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD PRESERVATION; CELL SEPARATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS;

EID: 40549120670     PISSN: 17515521     EISSN: 1751553X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-553X.2007.00906.x     Document Type: Article

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