Cord Blood – Importance, Benefits, Storage and Diseases it can cure – There is need to have knowledge of cord blood, its importance, processes of storage and how to use it effectively in the cure of so many diseases. It is well known that most parents do not bother about cord blood after child birth but it is something very essential and beneficial to the life of the child, siblings, relations, friends and the society at large.
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Cord blood (umbilical cord blood) is blood that remains in the placenta and in the attached umbilical cord after childbirth. Cord blood is composed of all the elements found in whole blood – red blood cells, white blood cells, plasma, platelets.
Compared to whole blood some differences in the blood composition exist, for example, cord blood contains higher numbers of natural killer cells, lower absolute number of T-cells and a higher proportion of immature T-cells. Cord blood is collected because it contains stem cells, which can be used to treat hematopoietic and genetic disorders.
A stem cell is a cell with the unique ability to develop into specialized cell types in the body. In the future they may be used to replace cells and tissues that have been damaged or lost due to disease.
Haematopoiesis or hematopoiesis is the formation of blood cellular components. All cellular blood components are derived from haematopoietic stem cells. In a healthy adult person, approximately 1011–1012 new blood cells are produced daily in order to maintain steady state levels in the peripheral circulation.
A genetic disorder is a health problem caused by one or more abnormalities in the genome. It can be caused by a mutation in a single gene (monogenic) or multiple genes (polygenic) or by a chromosomal abnormality.
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