Cord Blood Banking Glossary
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Formerly known as the American Association of Blood Banks. The AABB is an international association that represents individuals and institutions involved in transfusion and cellular therapies, such as transplantation medicine. |
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Unspecialized cells extracted from the umbilical cord that have the potential to change into different types of blood cells. |
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Cryobank |
A storage place that uses very low temperatures to preserve transplantable tissues. |
Cryopreservation |
A process by which cells or tissues are preserved through cooling to low sub-zero temperatures. |
Food and Drug Administration - A branch of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
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The cord blood storage tank is full of liquid nitrogen and the specimens are stored at -190º Celsius |
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Hematopoietic Stem Cells |
Cells that can only transform into different types of blood cells since they have already started to become blood stem cells. |
Pluripotent Stem Cells |
Are found in embryos. They are the most basic and undifferentiated form of stem cells, they can actually create and form new tissue and new organs. |
Unspecialized or un-programmed cells that have the potential to change into other cell/tissue types ex: muscle, cartilage, bone, etc. |
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Cord blood specimens are not stored in the liquid, but rather in the vapor from the liquid at -130º Celsius |
