Human Umbilical Cord Blood (HUCB) Versus Red Blood Cell Transfusion in Convalescent COVID-19 Anaemia: A Mathematical Model Shows the Efficacy of HUCB Over Adult Red Cells.

Talukdar B, Bhattacharya P, Choudhury S, Sengupta P, Bhattacharya N, Ghosh R and Naskar M

Published on: 2024-05-06

Abstract

Whole human umbilical cord blood (HUCB) is the blood that remains in the placenta and the attached umbilical cord after the delivery of a newborn. HUCB contains not only different type of stem cells but also contains other cellular and acellular substances like red blood cells (RBCs), white blood cells (WBCs), platelets and plasma [1,2,3].  Most of the occasion after the delivery of a baby placental cord blood discarded conventionally. Recently there are several potential fates of human umbilical cord blood such as i) cryopreservation of cord blood stem cells for various diseases like cancers, blood disorders, and immune deficiencies [4,5] ii) donation of cord blood for public uses such as spinal cord injury [6], iii) umbilical cord blood may use as research purpose or iv) as alternative of whole human blood [7].