Cord Blood
New cord blood findings from I.I. Salles and co-authors described
Published in Blood Weekly, January 28th, 2010
According to recent research from Kortrijk, Belgium, "Xenotransplantation systems have been used with increasing success to better understand human hematopoiesis and thrombopoiesis. In this study, we demonstrate that production of human platelets in nonobese diabetic/severe combined immunodeficient mice after transplantation of unexpanded cord-blood CD34(+) cells was detected within 10 days after transplantation, with the number of circulating human platelets peaking at 2 weeks (up to 87 x 10(3)/mu L)."
"This rapid human platelet production was followed by a second wave of platelet formation 5 weeks after transplantation, with a population of 5% still detected after 8...
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Source: Blood Weekly (2010-01-28)
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