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1Gluckman E, Rocha V, Arcese W, et al. Factors associated with outcomes of unrelated cord blood transplant: guidelines for donor choice. Exp Hematol. 2004;32(4):397-407.

2Wagner JE, Barker JN, DeFor TE, et al. Transplantation of unrelated donor umbilical cord blood in 102 patients with malignant and nonmalignant diseases: influence of CD34 cell dose and HLA disparity on treatment-related mortality and survival. Blood. 2002;100(5):1611-1618.

3Kamani N, Spellman S, Hurley CK, et al. State of the art review: HLA matching and outcome of unrelated donor umbilical cord blood transplants. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2008;14:1-6.

4Cairo MS,Wagner EL, Fraser J, Cohen G, et al. Characterization of banked umbilical cord blood hematopoietic progenitor cells and lymphocyte subsets and correlation with ethnicity, birth weight, sex, and type of delivery: a Cord Blood Transplantation (COBLT) Study report. Transfusion. 2005;45:856-866.

5Styczynski J, Cheung Y-K, Garvin J, et al. Unrelated donor transplants: outcomes of unrelated cord blood transplantation in pediatric recipients. Bone Marrow Transplant. 2004;34:129-136.

6van Heeckeren WJ, Fanning LR, Meyerson HJ, et al. Influence of human leucocyte antigen disparity and graft lymphocytes on allogeneic engraftment and survival after umbilical cord bloodtransplant in adults. Br J Haematol. 2007;139(3):464-474.

7Iori AP, Arcese W, Milano F, et al. Unrelated cord blood transplant in children with high-risk acute lymphoblastic leukemia: a long-term follow-up. Haematologica. 2007;92(8):1051-1058.

8Schoemans H, Theunissen K, Maertens J, Boogaerts M, Verfaillie C, Wagner J. Adult umbilical cord blood transplantation: a comprehensive
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9Rocha V, Gluckman E. Outcomes of transplantation in children with acute leukaemia. Lancet. 2007;369(9577):1906-1907.

10Wall DA,Chan KW. Selection of cord blood unit(s) for transplantation. Bone Marrow Transplant. 2008;42(1):1-7.

11Data on file, LifebankUSA; 2008.

12Resnick IB, Tsirigotis PD, Shapira MY, et al. ABO incompatibility is associated with increased non-relapse and GVHD related mortality in patients with malignancies treated with a reduced intensity regimen: a single center experience of 221 patients. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2008;14(4):409-417.

13Adomo G, Bruno A, Caravita T, et al. Red blood cell depletion of cord blood using hydroxyethylstarch double sedimentation: analysis of 40 cases. Clin Lab Haematol. 1998;20(6):341-343.

14Umbilical cord blood-low buffy-coat volume. Biosafe Web site. http://biosafe.ch/cms/statique/ucb_lbc.html. Accessed July 11, 2008.

15Dobrila L, Chapman J, Marr D, Kumar V, Coelho P, Rubinstein P. ThermoGenesis AXP AutoXpress Platform and BioArchive System for Automated Cord Blood Banking. ThermoGenesis Corp, Rancho Cordova, CA. 2006.

16Rowley SD. Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation between red cell incompatible donor-recipient pairs. Bone Marrow Transplant. 2001;28:315-321.

17Chow R, Rosenthal J, Nademanee A, et al. Is there more to cord blood (CB) products than cell dose? Paper presented at: The 6th Annual International Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation Symposium; June 6-7, 2008; Los Angeles, CA.

18Laroche V, McKenna DH, Moroff G, et al. Cell loss and recovery in umbilical cord blood processing: a comparison of postthaw and postwash samples. Transfusion. 2005;45:1909-1916.

19Nietfield, J.J., Pasquini, M.C. Logan, et al. Lifetime probabilities of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in the U.S. Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation. 2008; 14:316-322.

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* All research is conducted using publicly donated placenta-derived stem cells and cord blood stem cells (not embryonic stem cells). The stem cells you privately bank with LifebankUSA are your own and will never be used for research purposes

Additional Resources

Parent’s Guide to Cord Blood Foundation. Diseases treated by blood stem cells. http://parentsguidecordblood.com/content/usa/medical/diseases.html. Updated February 7, 2008. Accessed May 21, 2008.

United Cerebral Palsy Fact Sheet. http://www.ucp.org/ucp_ generaldoc.cfm/1/9/37/37-37/44. Accessed August 21, 2008.)

Pregnancy Weekly. Cord blood banks. http://www.parentingweekly.com/pregnancy/cord_blood_banks/index.asp. Accessed June 24, 2008.

National Marrow Donor Program Web site. Available at: http://www.marrow.org.

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