Research Catalog

Title

Cord blood : establishing a national hematopoietic stem cell bank program / Committee on Establishing a National Cord Blood Stem Cell Bank Program, Board on Health Sciences Policy ; Emily Ann Meyer, Kathi Hanna, and Kristine Gebbie, editors.

Author

Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Establishing a National Cord Blood Stem Cell Bank Program.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2005], ©2005.

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Additional Authors

• Meyer, Emily Ann.
• Hanna, Kathi E.
• Gebbie, Kristine M.

Description

xviii, 314 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation > standards
• Blood banks
• Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation > ethics
• Fetal blood > Transplantation
• Blood Grouping and Crossmatching > standards
• Blood Banks > organization & administration
• Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation > legislation & jurisprudence
• Cord Blood Stem Cell Transplantation > standards
• Hematopoietic stem cells

Note

• "This study was supported by contract number HHSH25056028 between the Department of Health and Human Services and the National Academy of Sciences"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation -- 3. Research -- 4. Umbilical cord blood banks and banking -- 5. Ethical and legal issues -- 6. Inventory of a national cord blood stem cell bank program -- 7. Recommended structure of a national program -- App. Potential nonhematopoietic uses for stem cells in cord blood -- App. A cost-benefit analysis of increasing cord blood inventory levels -- App. HLA overview -- App. Analysis of the NYBC, NMDP, and NHLBI cord blood data.

ISBN

• 0309095867 (hardcover)
• 0309096448

LCCN

2005018345

OCLC

• ocm60767064
• SCSB-5213734

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries