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Article: Umbilical Cord Tissue to Replace Cord Blood for HLA-Typing.
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- Blood Weekly
- Article date:
- February 22, 1999
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Diagnostics (HLA-Typing)
"Umbilical Cord Tissue to Replace Cord Blood for HLA-Typing." D.L. Xie, M.S. Kennedy, C. Orosz, D.Y. Xia, P. Adams and L.C. Lasky. Departments of Pathology and Surgery, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.
According to an abstract submitted by the authors to the 51st Annual Meeting of the American Association of Blood Banks, held October 31 - November 4, 1998, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, "BACKGROUND: Umbilical cord blood (CB) has been used as a source of hematopoietic progenitor cells to reconstitute marrow in over 450 patients. HLA typing in bone marrow transplantation (BMT) is important. HLA typing for C13 donors has ...