Did you know that your baby’s umbilical cord can be stored in a special bank umbilical cord? Umbilical cord or placenta (cord blood) is stored as they contain many stem cells (stem cells), which is useful to cure various diseases.
Stem cells are primary cells. There are two main requirements to be called stem cells. First, it must have the ability to differentiate, for example, from zygote cells transformed into insulin-producing pancreatic cells.
Second, they should be able to regenerate or reproduce themselves by mitosis (dividing cells). If planted in the kidney, he will turn into kidney cells. If planted in the hearts, he will also turn into liver cells.
MULTIPLE TYPES
Stem cells has some sort. First is the pluripotent taken from the zygote when entering the blastula phase. Stem cells can turn into anything if planted in the body. For example is to treat a degenerative disease, Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s.
Second, multipotent or stem cells taken from umbilical cord. Stem cells can become many cells, but can only be changed into the type of blood cell. The third is unipotent. Stem cells can be derived from brain tissue. If developed, it would be specific to brain tissue alone.
PREGNANT MOM TEST
Pregnant women who wanted to donate their stem cell must pass through a series of medical tests and their fetuses. This is important for the prospective donor recipients.
If it passes the medical tests, during delivery doctor and the laboratory team should be ready to take stem cells from umbilical cord blood, including providing a dedicated place to store the cord blood with temperatures of -90 degrees Celsius.
Shortly after the baby is born, the placenta (umbilical cord) should not be immediately cut. The condition of stem cells taking is that the umbilical cord still is in a state of beating or a maximum three minutes after the baby is born.
Blood disorders
Stem cells from umbilical cord blood can only treat the diseases of blood disorders such as leukemia (blood cancer) or lymphoma (cancer of lymph nodes). So far, the world’s already carrying around 2-3 patients with leukemia who were rescued with stem cells from umbilical cord blood. In theory, anyone can accept this without the affected stem cell race, age, or gender, as long as there are similarities HLA (human leukocyte antigen).