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Henry Co. Vet Clinic Tests Stem Cell Therapy

Dr. Clark Slone
Jonna Spelbring Priester
Dr. Clark Slone

When researchers in Australia were developing what would become adipose stem cell therapy, they tested the procedure on goats. And since introducing the procedure to the world, it’s been used to repair tissue damage in a wide variety of animals: cats, dogs, horses, even camels and a parrot. But until last week in Henry County, despite initially being tested on goats, the procedure had never been done in clinic on a goat anywhere in the world.

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