title: [Preservation and clinical application of umbilical cord blood for personal use-review].
abstract: Human umbilical cord blood (CB) is one potential source of hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) and progenitor cells, and it has been used to successfully treat leukemia, lymphoma, myelodysplastic syndrome, aplastic anemia, hemoglobinopathies, metabolic storage diseases, and immunodeficiencies. With the establishment of CB bank and increased cases of CB transplantation in clinical use, more and more parents today choice to donate the CB to a public CB bank, or to keep and store the CB in a private bank for potential use in the future. In this article, the current status of CB preservation and clinical application of CB for personal use are reviewed.
authors.affiliation: Union Stem cell and Gene Engineering LT CO, Tianjin 300384, China; Institute of Hematology & Blood Disease Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Tianjin 300020, China.
authors.forename: Wen-Jie
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Jian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Qian
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Lu-Gui
authors.initials: LG
authors.lastname: Qiu
mesh_terms: D001793:Blood Preservation; D036101:Cord Blood Stem Cell Transplantation; D005312:Fetal Blood; D006801:Humans; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous