Background: Fetal asphyxia and the consequent neurological damages could be avoided if the risk factors are controlled at earlier stages. Umbilical cord arterial blood gas (UCABG) seems to be related to the Apgar scores, as well as the neonatal morbidity and mortality rates. Therefore, we designed this study to assess the correlation between the Apgar score and UCABG i...

Introduction The increase in the use of breast feeding and the decrease in mothers' hospitalization in the past few years have caused  an increase in the infant bilirubin level, so it is necessary to introduce methods which can identify infants with higher risks of hyperbiliru binemia. The aim of this study is to determine the predictive value of measuring the umbilical cord bilirubin for patho...

background: umbilical cord tissue is a very rich source of mesenchymal stem cells. instead of discarding this source we are banking the tissue along with cord blood for possible future cell based applications. the cord tissue needs to be transported and stored properly in order for it to be good enough for cell isolation at a later date. in this paper we have carried out a validation study to d...

A velamentous insertion of the umbilical cord is characterized by the atypical aspect of the placental end of the cord, consisting in divergent umbilical vessels surrounded by fetal membranes and with no Wharton’s jelly present, resulting a cord that is inserted rather into membranes than the placental disk. By the divergence of the umbilical vessels as they travers the amnion and the chorion b...

background: in this study, we examined a new two step induction protocol for improving the differentiation of human umbilical cord blood-derived mesenchymal stem cells into neural progenitor cells. materials and methods: human umbilical cord blood-derived mesenchymal stem cells were first cultured in dulbecco’s modified eagle medium supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum in a humidified incub...

Umbilical cord blood is the baby's blood left over in the umbilical cord and placenta after a baby is delivered and the cord is cut. Cord blood has all of the features of regular blood, but it is also a rich source of hematopoietic stem cells. Hematopoietic stem cells are unspecialized cells that produce all blood cells. These include: • Platelets, which are needed for blood clotting • Red...

ackground: The use of antidepressants during pregnancy continues to garner considerable attention, though there are limited nvestigations that have sought to quantify fetal exposure. ethods: Maternal and umbilical cord sera were collected at delivery from ten women taking nortriptyline and seven taking lomipramine. Placental passage was calculated as the ratio of umbilical cord to maternal seru...