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Amulets and Cord Blood: Understanding Banking and Regenerative Medicine in Chennai, India

Umbilical cord blood stem cells can be extracted and collected in cord blood banks, potentially to be used for stem cell transplants in the case of blood and related disorders. But some women in Tamil Nadu store dried cord tissue in an amulet to protect their children from harm and to restore health...

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Autor principal: Panwar, Amishi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Routledge 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9928429/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36625669
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2022.2159821