Cord Blood Banking Standards: Autologous Versus Altruistic

Frontiers in Medicine
Sue Armitage

Abstract

Cord blood (CB) is either donated to public CB banks for use by any patient worldwide for whom it is a match or stored in a private bank for potential autologous or family use. It is a unique cell product that has potential for treating life-threatening diseases. The majority of CB products used today are for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and are accessed from public banks. CB is still evolving as a hematopoietic stem cell source, developing as a source for cellular immunotherapy products, such as natural killer, dendritic, and T-cells, and fast emerging as a non-hematopoietic stem cell source in the field of regenerative medicine. This review explores the regulations, standards, and accreditation schemes that are currently available nationally and internationally for public and private CB banking. Currently, most of private banking is under regulated as compared to public banking. Regulations and standards were initially developed to address the public arena. Early responses from the medical field regarding private CB banking was that at the present time, because of insufficient scientific data to support autologous banking and given the difficulty of making an accurate estimate of the need for autologous transplanta...Continue Reading

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Jan 4, 2007·Pediatrics·Bertram H LubinWilliam T Shearer
Feb 16, 2008·Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation : Journal of the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation·Karen K BallenUNKNOWN American Society of Blood and Marrow Transplantation
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Jul 14, 2011·Haematologica·Eliane GluckmanUNKNOWN Eurocord, Netcord, World Marrow Donor Association and National Marrow Donor Program
Jul 28, 2011·Transfusion·Carlo Petrini
Nov 8, 2014·Stem Cells Translational Medicine·Javier MunozElizabeth J Shpall

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