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Human placenta and chorion: potential additional sources of hematopoietic stem cells for transplantation
1 Nov 2011
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BACKGROUND: Hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) transplantation is an essential element of medical therapy, leading to cures of previously incurable hematological and nonhematological diseases. Many patients do not find matched donors in a timely manner, which has driven efforts to find alternative pools of transplantable HSCs. The use of umbilical cord blood (UCB) as a source of transplantable HSCs began more than two...
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