Scientific Articles

Listed below are articles/abstracts in which scientists from the St. Louis Cord Blood Bank participated, including links to the full text.

Articles

Reflections on the 2009 Cord Blood Symposium by William Miller, M.D., Medical Director of the St. Louis Cord Blood Bank.

Publications

Donna M. Regan, Jonathan D. Wofford, and Donna A. Wall. Comparison of cord blood thawing methods on cell recovery, potency, and infusion.  TRANSFUSION 2010;50:2670-2675

Wofford JD, Kemp J, Regan DM, Creer MH. Ethnically mismatched cord blood transplants in African Americans: The Saint Louis Cord Blood Bank experience. Cytotherapy. 2007; 9(7).

Goodwin HS., Grunzinger LM., Regan DM., McCormick KA., Johnson CE., Oliver DA., Mueckl KA., Alonso III JMF, Wall DA. Long term cryostorage of UC blood units: ability of the integral segment to confirm both identity and hematopoietic potential. Cytotherapy. 2003. 5

Regan DM, Alonso III, JM, Johnson CE, Wall DA. A simple and reliable procedure for cord blood banking, processing and freezing: St. Louis and Ohio Cord Blood Bank Experiences. Cytotherapy. 2001. 3(6): 429-433.

Donna M. Regan, Jonathan D. Wofford, and Donna A. Wall Comparison of cord blood thawing methods on cell recovery potency, and infusion Transfusion. 2010. Online.

Abstracts

Jonathan Wofford, Drew Schumacher, and Donna Regan Increasing Collection Volumes Using Economical Consumer Promotion Techniques: The St. Louis Cord Blood Bank Experience Cord Blood Symposium: 2010 June, San Francisco, California.

Christianna Henderson, Jonathan Wofford, Kathy Fortune, Donna Regan Evaluation of Processing Technologies for Umbilical Cord Blood (UCB) ISCT Meeting: 2010 May, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Jonathan Wofford, Donna Regan, Jennifer Sander, Deepika Bhatla, MD Confirmation of Unrelated Cord Blood Transplant as a Treatment Strategy for Severe Aplastic Anemia BMT Tandem Meeting: 2010 February, Orlando, Florida

Wofford JD, Tripplet BM, Mueckl KM, Geiler V, Regan DM.  Building an ethnically diverse cord blood inventory: a single institution’s initiative to increase African-American donations. Poster session presented at 2009 BMT Tandem Meeting; 2009 February, Tampa, Florida.

Henderson C, Wofford JD, Regan DM, Fortune KM.  The necessity of equipment performance qualification in a laboratory setting. Poster session presented at ISCT 15th Annual Meeting; 2009 May; San Diego California.

Wofford JD, Triplett BM, Regan DM. Comparison of dual cord transplant outcomes for myeloablative and non myeloablative preparative regimens. Paper presented at: AABB 2008 Annual Meeting; 2008 October 2008; Montréal, Canada.

Triplett BM, Regan DM, Wofford JD, Schaeffler J, Ferguson WS. The ratio of colony forming unit (CFU) to total nucleated cell (TNC) count predicts engraftment in umbilical cord blood transplant.  presented at BMT Tandem Meeting; 2008 February; San Diego, California.

Wofford JD, Kemp J, Regan DM. Umbilical cord blood transplant for primary immunodeficiency: the St. Louis Cord Blood Bank experience. Presented at National Marrow Donor Program Council Meeting; 2007 November; Minneapolis, Minnessota.

Wofford JD, Regan DM, Alonso JF, Creer MH.  Significance of lymphocyte contribution post processing in cord blood transplantation. 2006 Tandem BMT Meeting; 2006 February Honolulu, Hawaii.

Regan DM, Grunzinger Nelms LM, Wofford JD, Alonso JF, Creer MH. Comparison of cord blood product thawing methods on cell recovery and progenitor integrity.  Presented at International Society of Cellular Therapy Annual Meeting; 2005 May; Vancouver, British Columbia.

Regan DM, Stackle VA, Mueckl KA, Alonso JF, Creer MH.  Success of post cord blood donation contact and the impact on donor suitability. Presented at International Society of Cellular Therapy Annual Meeting; 2005 May; Vancouver, British Columbia.

DM Regan, J Alonso, K Acton, E Swierkosz, M Creer. Process Design for Monitoring Microbial Contamination in Cord Blood Products. International Society for Cellular Therapy Annual Meeting, Dublin Ireland, May 2004.

Oliver DA, Regan DM, Saridey S, Creer MH. HPC in peripheral blood predicts CFU activity and time to engraftment in autologous apheresis PBSC products as effectively as CD34 cell count. Presented at 2005 Tandem BMT Meeting; 2004 December; Keystone, Colorado.

Wofford JD, Regan DM, Creer MH. Adult transplant outcomes, single vs. pooled cord blood transplants.  Best abstract presented at 2005 Tandem BMT Meeting; 2004 December, Keystone, Colorado.

Regan DM, Wofford JD, McCormick K, Alonso J, Creer M. The role of hemoglobin barts in umbilical cord blood harvest and transplantation. Blood. 2004 November.

Regan DM, KA Mueckl KA, Oliver DA, Alonso JM, Johnson CE, Wall DA. Utilization of Cord Blood Banking Inventory: Impact on Banking Practices.  International Society for Hematotherapy and Graft Engineering, Quebec City, June 2001.

Goodwin HS, Regan DM, Oliver DA, Alonso III JM, DA Wall. Assessment of Cord Blood Product Viability for Application in Cord Blood Banking and Transplantation. American Association of Blood Banks 53nd Annual Meeting, Washington DC, November 2000.

Regan DM, Alonso III JM, Johnson CE, Wall DA.  Impact of increasing minimum cell dose on cord blood banking operations: Experience at the St. Louis Cord Blood Bank. American Association of Blood Banks 52nd Annual Meeting, San Francisco CA, November 1999.

Regan DM, JM Alonso III, CE Johnson, DA Wall.  A quality control approach to monitoring bacterial contamination in minimally manipulated hematopoietic stem cell products which utilizes less frequent routine culturing. American Association of Blood Banks 52nd Annual Meeting, San Francisco CA, November 1999.

Alonso III JM, Regan DM, Johnson CE, Wall DA.  A simple reliable cord blood banking processing procedure: St. Louis Cord Blood Bank Experience. American Association of Blood Banks 52nd Annual Meeting, San Francisco CA, November 1999. (oral presentation).

 

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