Umbilical cord blood and placental stem cells

When a child is just born, many people will preserve the umbilical cord blood and placental stem cells, because preserving these two things will greatly promote the child's future health. If the child has some difficult to deal with health problems, umbilical cord blood or placental stem cells can be used for treatment. Next, I will introduce you to some relevant knowledge about umbilical cord blood and placental stem cells.

1. The role of umbilical cord blood

Umbilical cord blood contains a large number of stem cells. Stem cells are the seeds of life. They will differentiate into various cells of the human body and produce various different fruits - blood cells, nerve cells, bone cells and so on. With the development of science and technology, medical experts have developed methods to use stem cells in umbilical cord blood to treat diseases.

Stem cells are a population of cells with self-renewal, high proliferation and multiple differentiation potentials. These cells can maintain their own cell characteristics and quantity through division, and can further differentiate into various tissue cells, thereby playing an active role in tissue repair and other aspects.

Medical research over the past three decades has found that umbilical cord blood is very rich in hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs), which can rebuild the human hematopoietic and immune systems and can be used for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation to treat blood system, immune system, as well as genetic metabolic and congenital diseases. Therefore, umbilical cord blood has become an important source of hematopoietic stem cells, has been widely used in clinical practice, and is a valuable human biological resource.

2. The role of placental stem cells

The placental stem cells discovered by science so far include: placental mesenchymal stem cells, placental pluripotent stem cells, and placental hematopoietic stem cells.

Placenta-derived stem cells play a vital role in the prospects of clinical application. It has unlimited prospects in many fields such as autologous organ repair, cloning transplantation, beauty, treatment of genetic diseases, heart disease, liver disease, diabetes, etc.

3. Comparison between placental stem cells and umbilical cord blood

Placental stem cells are relatively safe because they need to be washed with chemicals before being frozen, which often damages the placental barrier and makes them prone to infection. In addition, the extraction of placental stem cells involves too much human intervention and is considered unsafe according to FDA standards. The reagents used in the preparation and separation of umbilical cord blood are simple, meet FDA standards, and minimize intervention, making it a globally recognized cell therapy product.