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| Stem Cells - Your Body's Defense Like bone marrow, cord blood is enriched with stem cells, the building blocks of blood and the immune system. Stem cells differentiate, or reproduce, into other cells: red blood cells, which carry oxygen throughout the body; white blood cells, which fight infections; and platelets, which are necessary for clotting. Stem cells from cord blood are used to treat a variety of cancer and blood diseases. |
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Diseases Treated with Cord Blood
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Malignancies Acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) Acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) Chronic myelocytic leukemia (CML) Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) Solid tumors Hemoglobinopathies/Blood Disorders Amegakaryocytic thrombocytopenia (AMT) Congenital cytopenia Evan’s syndrome Kostmann’s syndrome (genetic) Sickle cell anemia |
Inborn Errors of Metabolism Bare-lymphocyte syndrome Dyskeratosis congenita Familial erythrophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis Gaucher disease Gunter disease Hunter syndrome Hurler syndrome (genetic) Inherited neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis Krabbe disease Langerhans'-cell histiocytosis Lesch-Nyhan disease Leukocyte adhesion deficiency Osteopetrosis
(genetic) Immunodeficiencies Adenosine deaminase deficiency (ADA or SCID-ADA) Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCIDs) Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome X-linked lymphoproliferative disease (XLP) |
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