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Stem cells used from umbilical cord blood

Stem cell banks and cord blood banks are becoming more and more common those days but did you know that the world’s first stem cell bank actually officially opened in the United Kingdom in 2004.

Author: Wayne Channon

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This stem cells bank opened in Hertfordshire and contained two stem cells lines actually developed in London and Newcastle. With people not fully understanding how important stem cells could be for us, everybody agrees that more research need to be done in order to help understand all that.

Stem cell research really offers an enormous potential for major advances in clinical therapy and could really save lives. Stem cells could be used for different roles like for example replacing damaged cells due to a disease, such as diabetes.

Even if a lot of people think that extracting stem cells from human embryos is unethical, those stem cells can also be extracted from umbilical cord blood which can be seen as less of a problem and is certainly something more ethical as well. Human umbilical cord blood cells are very rich in stem cells and progenitor cells which make them the perfect place to take stem cells from and then store them in a cord blood bank or a stem cells bank.

Studies were done were intravenously infused cord blood cells entered the brain, survived, differentiated and actually improved neurological functional recovery after strokes in rats.

Neural transplantation has been used to study and promote the regenerative potential of the brain after an ischemic insult. Fetal neutral stem cells can reduce behavioral deficits in damaged and compromised brain in animals and in humans. However, transplantation of embryonic grafts is plagued with logistical and ethical considerations. Thus, it is reasonable to seek alternative sources or an equivalent of stem cells. Stem cells have been isolated from various tissues in animals and humans, including adult bone marrow, cord blood and even human brain.
Human umbilical cord blood cells are rich in mescenchymal progenitor cells and contain a large number of endothelial cell precursors.

Cord blood cells contain many immature stem cells with extensive proliferation capacity in vitro. Human umbilical cord blood cells have been used as a source of transplantable stem cells and as a source of transplantable stem cells or progenitor cells but also as a source of marrow-repopulating cells for the treatment of pediatric disease. Those cells have been used recently to reconstitute marrow in a

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The author works for, a stem cells bank and cord blood banks that specialise in umbilical cord blood collection. http://www.cells4life.co.uk

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Stem cells used from umbilical cord blood