Interesting -- they didn't ask my blood type. Perhaps umbilical stem cells are undifferentiated even including blood type?
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Interesting -- they didn't ask my blood type. Perhaps umbilical stem cells are undifferentiated even including blood type?
My knowledge of medicine is limited, but cell transplantation must correspond to the blood group, because it is the carrier of immune cells in the human body @libertyteeth
Thanks for the motivation to look this up! It appears that stem cells are matched to the recipient with HLA, a protein "marker" indicating whether it belongs in your body or not.
https://www.dkms.de/en/content/does-donor-have-have-same-blood-type-patient
https://bethematch.org/transplant-basics/matching-patients-with-donors/how-donors-and-patients-are-matched/
Enjoy!
It is useful information thank you, and the transfer of members from one person to another, requires a complex consensus C M H @libertyteeth