Ho Chi Minh City: Establishment of umbilical cord blood bank

On April 20, CryoCord, Malaysian Root Cell Storage and Research Company, and Ngoc Tam Hospital signed a cooperation agreement to build a bank of umbilical cord blood blood cells - the first large-scale stem cell in the city. HCM.

This bank will be located in the new urban center of District 2, in a complex area of ​​25,000m2. It is expected that by the fourth quarter of 2007, this bank will be inaugurated and put into operation.

Umbilical cord blood sources will come from 2 sources. The first source mobilized from women voluntarily deposited in banks for storage. The second source is from anonymous cord stalks. Storage costs are currently not calculated. Besides storing stem cells from umbilical cord blood and other sources, the bank will have a research team to use stem cells to treat the diseases that the world has applied or is studying.

In addition, a portion of cord blood storage - an anonymous free stem cell will be donated to poor patients with appropriate immune groups or provided to patients without umbilical cord blood - stem cell stem cells In the family are stored at the bank.

Umbilical cord blood stem cells can only be obtained at a single time right after birth. Umbilical cord blood stem cells are highly developed compared to bone marrow stem cells from 8-10 times. At the same time, due to being collected and stored at birth, umbilical stem cells remain their special biological properties until used.

Umbilical cord blood storage is a form of " biological insurance " for your baby's health and family members. (Photo: H.Cat)

Umbilical cord blood, through technology to process tissue, into a fluid containing stem cells. After that, the fluid containing this cell will be infused as a blood transfusion or infusion.

For the treatment of neuropathy, this fluid can be pumped into the spinal cord . However, if well-directed, only injected into the bloodstream, stem cells can find themselves to organs for treatment. hurt.

According to Dr. Ho Manh Tuong, Dean of Tu Du Hospital, because the cord cells are quite young, there is not much differentiation in immunity, so it is effective to transplant for people with immunity factors (HLA) as well equivalent to HLA homosexuals.

Since the first case of successful treatment of blood disease in 1989, the world now has more than 8,000 cases of using cord blood stem cells to treat the disease. So far, it has been reported that 69 different pathologies have been studied for treatment with umbilical cord blood stem cells.

Currently, umbilical cord blood stem cells have been officially used to treat inherited or cancerous blood diseases . In the near future, this stem cell type can be used to treat diseases of brain, nerve, cardiovascular, diabetes, liver .

According to statistics, China currently has more than 10 umbilical cord blood banks, Singapore has 2 banks, Malaysia 3 while Thailand has 1 storage bank. In Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City Hematology and Blood Transfusion Hospital has stored 1,800 samples of umbilical cord blood. However, these samples only stop at the research level.

Umbilical cord blood stem cells, through tissue processing technology, will produce blood cells, fat cells, cardiac muscle cells, neurons, pancreatic cells, liver cells . (Private image) raw)

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