Umbilical cord tissue is simply a piece of your baby’s umbilical cord that is collected after the cord blood. It contains billions of stem cells, particularly within the Wharton’s jelly in the cord but also within other regions. This is why Cells4Life stores the entirety of the tissue sample that we collect. Umbilical cord tissue contains several powerful stem cell types, some of which are unique and not present within the umbilical cord blood. Storing cord tissue along with cord blood ensures that your child has the maximum range of stem cell types, so that they can take advantage of as many future developments as possible. Cells4Life is the only UK stem cell storage bank that offers to store you child’s cord blood and cord tissue in multiple samples, providing added security and the possibility that they could be used for multiple treatments in future.
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Umbilical Tissue Stem Cells
1. Greatest number of stem cells possible
Some stem cell therapies require the maximum number of stem cells possible in order to increase their chances of success. By choosing our CellsPlus service with cord tissue, you guarantee that your baby has the access to every single cell available.
2. Prepared to receive multiple treatments
As your child grows, so too do the number of different and often very common conditions that could be treated using cord blood and cord tissue stem cells. By guaranteeing that you store the maximum number and range of stem cells possible, you ensure that your child is prepared to receive not just one stem cell treatment, but potentially multiple treatments for conditions that we all suffer from as we head into old age.
Ultimately, when you store cord blood and cord tissue together, you can rest assured that your child has the best treatment opportunities available to them, both now and in the future.
What is umbilical cord tissue used for?
Cord tissue is currently being investigated for the treatment of the following conditions:
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Aplastic anaemia
- Cardiomyopathy
- Cartilage repair
- Cerebral Palsy
- Connective tissue diseases
- Type 2 Diabetes
- Erectile Dysfunction
- Liver failure
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Myocardial infarction
- Osteoarthritis
- Ovarian failure
- Parkinson’s disease
- Psoriasis
- Retinitis pigmentosa
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Sepsis
- Spinal cord injury
- Stroke
- Traumatic optic neuropathy
- Ulcerative colitis
- And many more…
Why should I store cord tissue as well as cord blood?
By capturing both umbilical cord blood and tissue, you ensure that your child has access to the maximum range and highest number of stem cells possible. This is very important for two key reasons:
1. Greatest number of stem cells possible
Some stem cell therapies require the maximum number of stem cells possible in order to increase their chances of success. By choosing our CellsPlus service with cord tissue, you guarantee that your baby has the access to three times more cells.
2. Prepared to receive multiple treatments
As your child grows, so too do the number of different and often very common conditions that could be treated using cord blood and cord tissue stem cells. By guaranteeing that you store the maximum number and range of stem cells possible, you ensure that your child is prepared to receive not just one stem cell treatment, but potentially multiple treatments for conditions that we all suffer from as we head into old age. Ultimately, when you store cord blood and cord tissue together, you can rest assured that your child has the best treatment opportunities available to them, both now and in the future.
What conditions could be treated using cord blood tissue stem cells?
Neurological conditions
Scientists at Duke University, North Carolina are treating autistic children with intravenous infusions of cord tissue-derived MSCs.
Heart and vascular disease
Scientists have seen promising results using MSCs to engineer new cardiac tissue, offering hope to patients suffering from heart failure.
Diabetes
A clinical trial is applying Wharton’s Jelly-derived MSCs to patients with the condition, which affects 415 million people worldwide.
Skeletal conditions
Cord mesenchymal stem cells have been used to treat Multiple Sclerosis, which affects the brain and spinal cord, in clinical trials. Doctors noticed symptom improvements within 1 month.
Cancers
A 2014 study found that umbilical cord tissue MSCs inhibited the growth of tumours linked with prostate cancer, and further research has found similar potential for patients with breast cancer.
Inflammatory & autoimmune
In Durham, North Carolina, researchers have found that MSCs can treat sepsis, which is an inflammatory condition caused by the body’s overreaction to infection.
The Cells4Life Difference
Stem cells have two crucial properties:
- the ability to self-renew
- the ability to differentiate into other cell types
In 2018, we became the first cord blood bank in the UK to demonstrate not just viability, but also that our transportation, processing and cryopreservation methods maintain these properties in the mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) found in your baby’s umbilical cord tissue.
We were able to do this by isolating MSCs from cord tissue samples that we have collected, expanding them, and then stimulating them to transform into other tissue types.
We successfully grew the main cell types that normally form part of bone, adipose and cartilage tissues, showing our methods retain MSC ‘stemness’. This could be crucial for therapeutic utility.
When you bank umbilical cord tissue with us, you can rest assured that you are making the most of your baby’s stem cells.
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