Factors That Influence a Mother's Willingness to Preserve Umbilical Cord Blood: A Survey of 5120 Chinese Mothers.

Umbilical Cord blood (UCB), which contains a substantive number of stem cells, could be widely used in transplants to treat a variety of oncologic, genetic, hematologic, and immunodeficiency disorders. However, only a small portion of mothers preserve or donate their UCB in China. The limited availa...

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Main Authors: Haiyan Lu, Yanwen Chen, Qiaofen Lan, Huanjin Liao, Jing Wu, Haiyan Xiao, Carol A Dickerson, Ping Wu, Qingjun Pan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4674096?pdf=render