VPN Plus+ ExclusiveStem cell therapies – leaping before looking?March 31, 2021By Brennen McKenzie, MA, MSc, VMD, cVMAAs often happens, preliminary research in laboratory animals and in human medicine led to relatively rapid commercialization and clinical use of stem cell treatments in veterinary medicine well before robust clinical trial evidence in companion animals with natural disease had been developed. Fortunately, as better evidence has been slowly accumulated, it is looking more and more like we may have “guessed right” in this case: the risks to our patients are minimal (though not negligible) and there may well be meaningful benefits.
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3 ways to use stem cells in every day equine practiceAugust 2, 2016Although still in its infancy, the field of regenerative medicine is maturing and growing. The thought of harvesting adipose tissue or bone marrow is not as daunting a task as it once seemed, and several commercial kits make processing those tissues in-house easy.