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To establish an in vitro culture system that enables extensive expansion and self-renewal of primitive human umbilical cord blood stem cells for adult transplantation.

April 15, 1997BloodOpen Access

Extensive Amplification and Self-Renewal of Human Primitive Hematopoietic Stem Cells From Cord Blood

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WPWanda PiacibelloUniversity of Parma FSF SanavioPiedmont Reference Center for Epidemiology and Cancer Prevention LGL. GarettoCandiolo Cancer Institute

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In vitro study demonstrates massive long-term expansion of primitive hematopoietic progenitors from human cord blood, suggesting feasibility for adult stem cell transplantation.

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To establish an in vitro culture system that enables extensive expansion and self-renewal of primitive human umbilical cord blood stem cells for adult transplantation.
Cultured isolated human umbilical cord blood CD34+ cells in liquid culture for more than 6 months using a combination of two hematopoietic growth factors.
Quantified progenitor yields and lineage differentiation across multiple timepoints using colony-forming unit-granulocyte-macrophage (CFU-GM) and long-term culture-initiating cell (LTC-IC) assays.
CFU-GM progenitor numbers expanded to well over 2,000,000-fold compared to baseline levels after 6 months of continuous liquid culture.
Primitive LTC-IC counts increased more than 200,000-fold relative to initial numbers after 20 weeks of culture, indicating robust progenitor self-renewal with minimal differentiation exhaustion.

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Piacibello et al. (1997) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a8231a8d67698edfc46342c https://doi.org/10.1182/blood.v89.8.2644

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In vitro study demonstrates massive long-term expansion of primitive hematopoietic progenitors from human cord blood, suggesting feasibility for adult stem cell transplantation.

Extensive Amplification and Self-Renewal of Human Primitive Hematopoietic Stem Cells From Cord Blood

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