Cord blood stem cells for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in the uk:how big should the bank be?

Haematologica

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 536-541

  Querol, Sergio ^a,b,c   Mufti, Ghulam J ^c   Marsh, Steven G E ^a,b   Pagliuca, Antonio ^c   Little, Ann Margaret ^a,b   Shaw, Bronwen E ^a,b,d   Jeffery, Robert ^a   Garcia, Joan ^e   Goldman, John M ^a   Madrigal, J Alejandro ^a,b  

^a ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d ROYAL MARSDEN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e BANC DE SANG I TEIXITS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Banking; Cord blood; Stem cell transplantation

Indexed keywords

HLA A ANTIGEN; HLA B ANTIGEN;

ALLELE; ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD BANK; BLOOD DONOR; HLA MATCHING; HLA TYPING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NORMAL HUMAN; STEM CELL; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 66349110894     PISSN: 03906078     EISSN: 15928721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3324/haematol.2008.002741     Document Type: Article

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