Therapeutic Potential of Placental Umbilical Cord Blood in Cardiology

Umbilical cord blood is medical waste and common allograft cellular source for bone marrow transplantation. It contains a special mesenchymal stem cells, whose cardiomyogenic transdifferentiation efficiency was about 100 times higher than well known marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells. In this section, we would like to introduce the potential of umbilical cord blood derived mesenchymal stem cell for cardiac stem cell therapy.