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2. Cord blood bank - Wikipedia

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   A cord blood bank is a facility which stores umbilical cord blood for future use. Both private and public cord blood banks have developed in response to the potential for cord blood in treating diseases of the blood and immune systems. Public cord blood banks accept donations to be used for anyone in need, and as such function like public blood ...

3. Cord blood - Wikipedia

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   Cord blood is composed of all the elements found in whole blood – red blood cells, white blood cells, plasma, platelets. [6] Compared to whole blood some differences in the blood composition exist, for example, cord blood contains higher numbers of natural killer cells, lower absolute number of T-cells and a higher proportion of immature T-cells. [7]

4. LifeSouth Community Blood Centers - Wikipedia

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   LifeSouth Community Foundation is a support affiliate of LifeSouth Community Blood Centers, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) charitable organization. The LifeSouth Community Foundation educates and raises awareness of the ways to share life with others through the donation of blood, apheresis, marrow, cord blood, organ and tissue. The Foundation works to ...

5. National Marrow Donor Program - Wikipedia

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   In both cases, recovery is usually swift and donors typically have fully restored marrow and blood cell counts in under two weeks. Cord blood cells are obtained from the umbilical cord and placenta of a newborn baby after the cord is clamped and cut as in a normal delivery. The cord blood is then stored frozen in a bank until needed for a ...

6. List of blood donation agencies in the United States

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   America's Blood Centers (ABC), North America's largest network of non-profit community blood centers. [2] Most of the independent blood centers on this list are ABC members, and these account for approximately 60 percent of the U.S. blood supply. [3] Blood Centers of America (BCA), a national cooperative of independent blood centers. [4]

7. Bloodworks Northwest - Wikipedia

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   Bloodworks Northwest operates 12 donation centers in western Washington, as well as mobile donation vehicles. [8] Bloodworks Northwest claims it collects about 900 units of blood each day. Bloodworks Northwest also partners with western Washington hospitals to collect and preserve umbilical cord blood from new mothers, which are harvested for ...

8. Umbilical cord - Wikipedia

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   The blood within the umbilical cord, known as cord blood, is a rich and readily available source of primitive, undifferentiated stem cells (of type CD34-positive and CD38-negative). These cord blood cells can be used for bone marrow transplant.

9. Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation - Wikipedia

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   Hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation (HSCT) is the transplantation of multipotent hematopoietic stem cells, usually derived from bone marrow, peripheral blood, or umbilical cord blood, in order to replicate inside a patient and produce additional normal blood cells.