What is it about?
This article is about how adipose tissue can serve as an important source for stem cells for treating pet injuries and maladies.
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Why is it important?
The article examines novel approaches to the treatment of various pet illnesses and diseases. The authors demonstrate how adipose tissue can serve as an important source for treating pets with moderate to severe injuries or illnesses.
Perspectives
Learning about stem cells within the context of treating pet illness or injury is an additional way for teachers to discuss the integration of science, technology, and veterinary medicine. We explain how practitioners in veterinary medicine harvest animal stem cells from adipose (fat) tissue in treating pet illness or injury. Further, we narrate how the veterinarian's approach to pet stem cell therapy demonstrates an important step in technological progress in science, one that may lead to medical advances for humans.
Daniel Ness
Saint John's University
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This page is a summary of: Discussion of Animal Stem Cells in the Classroom, The American Biology Teacher, August 2015, University of California Press,
DOI: 10.1525/abt.2015.77.6.405.
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