Harvesting Stem Cell from Peripheral Blood

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Harvesting Stem Cell from Peripheral Blood
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Cord Blood Banking Process 

• Cord blood banking is the process of collection
  as well as storage of the stem cells from the
  umbilical cord.
• All of these stem cells are adaptable and can
  treat various diseases that can be regenerated
  into any type of cells.

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Private and Public Bank

• Private cord blood banks mainly take a reasonable
  amount of fee for the collection, processing and
  storing the umbilical cord blood stem cells of
  your child. This method is performed so that the
  stored stem cells can be used for emerging
  treatments in the future for your family. 
•  There are some public banks where the cord blood
  is stored for free of cost but in this case, you
  cannot retrieve the stem cells of your own baby.

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Two main storage of cord blood are

• Donating the cord blood at a public bank can be
  used to match with the patients suffering from
  the severe medical condition.
• Storing of the cord blood in a private stem cell
  bank will help to retrieve your babys stem cells
  whenever you will need it.

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Cord Clamping

• Medical staff usually collects cord blood right
  after birth, but if parents want to participate
  in delayed cord clamping, they can also wait for
  several minutes.
• The clamping is done just like a normal procedure
  and for both the mother and her baby it is
  completely painless. 

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Cord Blood Collection

• First, as a normal umbilical cord removal, the
  cord is clamped and cut. The medical staff must
  be trained on proper collections of cord blood
  if they wait too long, the blood clots will be
  unnecessary for storage. 
• Then the blood is pulled out. A needle is placed
  in the cord and the rest of the blood is gently
  pulled out. This medical device is kept away from
  your baby, so its as safe as possible.

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Cord Blood Collection

• Then the blood is shipped to your chosen bank,
  where it is tested. The bank cryogenically
  freezes the cord blood if the stem cells are
  usable, so it remains useful for decades to come.
• Several banks offer cord tissue services that
  will increase your familys amount of banked stem
  cells at an additional cost. More than 80
  diseases can currently be treated using cord
  blood stem cells, with more treatments emerging
  each year.

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Cord Blood Collection

• The FDA has approved leukemia, aplastic anemia
  and other hazardous life-threatening diseases for
  cord blood therapies.
• A clinical trial is looking at new therapies
  using cord blood in addition to current
  treatments. These include cerebral paralysis,
  autism, and diabetes of type 1. If current trials
  are successful, the treatment of cord blood may
  become a common practice in the next few years.

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Viability of Cord Blood

• This means that cryogenically preserved stem
  cells still have decades of proper functioning.
  One scientist tested the viability of cord blood
  from 23 years of age, and the sample remained in
  perfect condition.
• While cord blood as n innovative methods in the
  field of regenerative studies is still rising and
  striving to the future of stem cell therapy is
  hopeful for many researchers and medical
  professionals.

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References

• https//www.cordlifeindia.com/blog/harvesting-stem
  -cell-peripheral-blood/
• https//www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK279428/