Umbilical cord blood graft enhancement strategies: has the time come to move these into the clinic?

Priming of Hematopoietic Progenitor Cells (HPC) with Complement Fragment 3A (C3A) to Promote Homing of Umbilical Cord Blood (UCB): Safety Profile

(2012) C.G. Brunstein et al.   BIOLOGY OF BLOOD AND MARROW TRANSPLANTATION

Hematopoietic stem cells: to be or Notch to be

(2012) A. Bigas et al.   BLOOD

Single-unit umbilical cord blood transplantation from unrelated donors in patients with hematological malignancy using busulfan, thiotepa, fludarabine and ATG as myeloablative conditioning regimen

(2012) J Sanz et al.   BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION

Prostaglandin E2 Enhances Human Cord Blood Stem Cell Xenotransplants and Shows Long-Term Safety in Preclinical Nonhuman Primate Transplant Models

(2011) Wolfram Goessling et al.   Cell Stem Cell

Nicotinamide, a SIRT1 inhibitor, inhibits differentiation and facilitates expansion of hematopoietic progenitor cells with enhanced bone marrow homing and engraftment

(2011) Tony Peled et al.   EXPERIMENTAL HEMATOLOGY

Placenta perfusion has hematopoietic and mesenchymal progenitor stem cell potential

(2011) Nikos Tsagias et al.   TRANSFUSION

Ex vivo expansion of umbilical cord blood for transplantation

(2010) S.S. Tung et al.   BEST PRACTICE & RESEARCH CLINICAL HAEMATOLOGY

Notch-mediated expansion of human cord blood progenitor cells capable of rapid myeloid reconstitution

(2010) Colleen Delaney et al.   NATURE MEDICINE

New Approaches for Improving Engraftment after Cord Blood Transplantation

(2009) Vanderson Rocha et al.   BIOLOGY OF BLOOD AND MARROW TRANSPLANTATION

Prostaglandin E2 enhances hematopoietic stem cell homing, survival, and proliferation

(2009) J. Hoggatt et al.   BLOOD

In vivo prostaglandin E2 treatment alters the bone marrow microenvironment and preferentially expands short-term hematopoietic stem cells

(2009) B. J. Frisch et al.   BLOOD

Ex vivo expansion of cord blood

(2009) S S Kelly et al.   BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION

Genetic Interaction of PGE2 and Wnt Signaling Regulates Developmental Specification of Stem Cells and Regeneration

(2009) Wolfram Goessling et al.   CELL

Transplantation of ex vivo expanded cord blood cells using the copper chelator tetraethylenepentamine: a phase I/II clinical trial

(2008) M de Lima et al.   BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION