TURKISH JOURNAL OF HEMATOLOGY, cilt.34, sa.4, ss.314-320, 2017 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus, TRDizin)
Objective: Colony-forming units of granulocytes/macrophages (CFU-GM) analysis is the most widely used method to determine the hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) content of human umbilical cord blood (CB) for prediction of engraftment potential. The measurement of aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) activity is a more recent method for HSC qualification. Our aim was to correlate phenotypic and functional assays to find the most predictive method.