TY - BOOK AU - Rabab Elsayed Elhawary AU - Heba Nabil Abdelrazik , AU - Mai Mahmoud Sherif , AU - Taghrid Mohamed Gaafar , TI - Effect of mesenchymal stem cells on the proliferation and maintenance of hematopoietic progenitor cells / PY - 2011/// CY - Cairo : PB - Rabab Elsayed Elhawary , KW - Hematopoietic stem cells KW - Mesenchymal stem cells KW - Stem cells niche N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Clinical and Chemical Pathology; Issued also as CD N2 - Adult bone marrow (BM) is the major source of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) for cell therapy. however, aspiration of BM involves invasive procedures. we isolated MSCs from human full term umbilical cord blood (UCB). MSCs have been suggested to provide a suitable cellular environment for in vitro expansion of hematopoietic progenitor cells (HPCs) from umbilical cord blood UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -