organ transplantation

Bone Marrow TransplantationCells responsible for blood production in human organism are stem cells that are in the bone marrow. Transplantation of cells that have highly specialized functions is called "bone marrow transplantation". Bone marrow transplantation is performed in two way including transplantation from patient himself/herself and from another donor. Transplanting patient's own stem cells to the patient is called 'autologous' bone marrow transplantation; and transplanting stem cells taken from another person to the patient is called 'allogeneic' bone marrow transplantation.