Cord Blood Stem Cell Procurement in Minority Donors

Abstract

This is the third annual report submitted for this research program. The report for the first and the second aims of this project have been submitted. In the first aim, we showed significantly lower content of nucleated cells in CBUs from African/American mothers and intervention with more frequent prenatal visits did not change the cell yield. In the second aim, we demonstrated the increase access to collection of African/American CBUs through education may compensate for poor individual yield and thus prove to be an effective means of building minority CBU inventory. This final annual report is to give the report of the transplantation outcomes of African/American CBU recipients compared with other racial groups. This analysis is limited to those patients who have received an allogeneic cord blood stem cell transplantation at Karmanos Cancer Center.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2008
Accession Number
ADA490316

Entities

People

  • Voravit Ratanatharathorn

Organizations

  • Wayne State University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Biomedical Research
  • Cells
  • Cyclophosphamide
  • Department Of Defense
  • Education
  • Ethnic Groups
  • Information Operations
  • Intervention
  • Inventory
  • Minority Groups
  • Procurement
  • Stem Cells
  • Transplantation

Fields of Study

  • Chemistry

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  • Neuroscience
  • Oncology (Cancer Research).
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.

Technology Areas

  • Biotechnology