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A pilot study of neuroprotection with umbilical cord blood cell transplantation for preterm very low birth weight infants
Kyu Young Chae, Kyu Hyung Lee, So-Hee Eun, Byung Min Choi, Baik-Lin Eun, Hoon-Chul Kang, Myung Jae Chey, Nam Keun Kim, Doyeun Oh
Clin Exp Pediatr. 2007;50(9):882-890.   Published online September 15, 2007
Purpose : Preterm very low birth weight infant have high rate of adverse neurodevelopmental sequale. Recently, there have been lots of reports that human umbilical cord blood transplantation ameliorates functional deficits in animal models as hypoxic ischemic injury. This pilot study was undertaken to determine the clinical efficacy and safety of autologous umbilical cord blood cell transplantation for preventing neurodevelopmental...