Optimizing donor selection for public cord blood banking: influence of maternal, infant, and collection characteristics on cord blood unit quality.
Routine quality and potency metrics (postprocessing total nucleated cell count [post-TNCC], CD34+, colony-forming units [CFUs]) were correlated with maternal, infant, and collection characteristics.High-quality CBUs were defined as those with higher post-TNCC (>1.25 × 10 9)) with CD34+ and CFUs in the upper quartile.
Spot urine samples were collected from mothers at ∼26 weeks of gestation in sterile polyethylene containers and from children at 24 months of age using a standard infant urine collection bag (Hollister, Libertyville, IL).
Last month, the Hong Kong-based artist exhibited this series of warped infants, a collection dubbed Inner Child, at K+ Curatorial Space in Singapore, and we wish we could have seen the faces of visitors checking out the disembodied baby head in the middle of that see-saw, the adorable suit-wearing baby with a fish swimming into its head, and the somber lad or lass who is actually a mug.
The nutritionists were not involved with the care and feeding of infants, data collection and data handling.
Cell pellets were archived at all time points for infants of HIV positive mothers and at the time of the first positive maternal ELISA and at all subsequent infant blood collections for infants whose mothers seroconverted postnatally.
Because of inherent difficulties in carrying out clinical trials in preterm infants, the collection of 'real-world' data is necessary to fully address clinical issues.
An area in which this is particularly notable is that of child involvement in health research, with questions being raised as to the ethics of children becoming research subjects when they cannot give informed consent[ 43- 46]; for example, infant stool sample collection for microbial research raises similar concerns to new born blood spot collection in genetic biobank research.
To decrease family burden during data collection, infant temperament was assessed with an investigator-developed brief instrument adapted from more extensive measures and focused on early infant behaviors most likely to disrupt parental sleep.
Objectives. First, to compare analgesic effects of breast-feeding versus pacifier use in newborn infants undergoing blood collection via heel sticks.
