Improving engraftment and immune reconstitution in umbilical cord blood transplantation
Umbilical cord blood (UCB) is an important source of haematopoietic stem cells (HSC) for allogeneic transplantation when HLA-matched sibling and unrelated donors (MUD) are unavailable. Although the overall survival rates of UCB transplantation are comparable to the results with MUD, UCB transplants...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2014-02-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Immunology |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fimmu.2014.00068/full |