Article
Evaluation of lymphocyte subpopulations in cord blood of Bulgarian newborns.
Clinical laboratory - 1 Jan 2014
Atanasova Valentina, Mihaylova Anastasia, Lukanov Tsvetelin, Atanasova Maria, Nikolov Assen, Naumova Elissaveta
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Umbilical cord blood (UCB) is a clinically useful source of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells for treatment of a wide variety of malignant and non-malignant disorders. An important way to completing infor- mation on the quality and composition of units for transplantation is more extensive immunophenotyping of UCB. Moreover, phenotyping of lymphocyte subpopulations is essential for the diagnosis...
Topics
- B-Lymphocyte Subsets
- Biomarkers
- Bulgaria
- Fetal Blood
- Flow Cytometry
- Humans
- Immunophenotyping
- Infant, Newborn
- Killer Cells, Natural
- Lymphocyte Count
- Phenotype
