Sebastian veterinarian performs stem cell treatment for pets

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SEBASTIAN Toby, a 6-year-old golden retriever, loves to run and play catch. And Oreo, a 12-year-old border collie mix, also is a bundle of energy.

Movement for both dogs got easier about a month ago when they received a revolutionary stem cell treatment at the Highlands Animal Hospital.

Veterinarian Marcus Kramer performed the successful transplant procedures, which were developed by Kentucky-based MediVet-America.

Both dogs had been in significant pain with a restricted range of motion, as shown on X-rays.

“It’s made a big difference,” said Kramer. “The really amazing thing is that they both healed so quickly. Both dogs had problems with their hips and were suffering from osteoarthritis. Just 30-days later, they are able to walk and run again.”

Adult animal stem cell technology uses the pet’s own regenerative healing power to treat dogs, cats and horses suffering from arthritis, hip dysplasia and tendon, ligament and cartilage injuries. Under anesthesia, Kramer removed about 40 grams of fat from each dog and separated the stem cells from the fat. He then activated the stem cells under an LED light, and injected them back into the dogs.

Stem cell therapy allows an animal to get off pain and anti-inflammatory drugs, Kramer said. MediVet-America’s therapy is done entirely at the animal hospital in about three hours, and costs about $1,800 for dogs and $2,400 for horses. That compares to thousands of dollars that pet owners could expect to pay for medication over a pet’s lifetime.

Erica Kent, a spokesman for MediVet-America, said using the LED light is integral to the patented-process, because the light helps to awaken stem cells and makes them more active. The three-color light stimulates millions of dormant cells to initiate repair from the moment the cells are injected into the animal’s body, according to the MediVet-America website.

The company is also offering a program that allows pet owners to bank stem cells when animals are younger to use if their pet develops illnesses like arthritis in old age.

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Vet undertakes stem cell surgery

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Animal stem cell regenerative therapy is the newest service at the Animal Hospital of Tiffin.

“We are the official first site for the therapy in Ohio,” said veterinarian Bob McClung.

The technology uses an adult animal’s stem cells to heal itself.

Veterinarian Mike Brothers performed the surgery Monday on his dog, Tucker, a 2-year-old labrador retriever. It was the second surgery performed at the clinic.

Brothers said his dog’s joint problems are hereditary and he’s had problems since he was a puppy.

“What we’ve been able to do is slow down the arthritis,” Brothers said. The cause of the degeneration will continue, but the fatty tissue removed from the dog can be used for future treatments.

From a piece of fatty tissue of the size removed from Tucker, McClung estimated $3.2 billion stem cells were harvested.

Each injection uses about 90 million cells, so there will be enough of the material for future treatments.

“We have basically 2 billion cells to bank,” he said. “We use cryo-preservation.”

In the freezing process, the cells are gradually cooled to prevent damage and stored in liquid nitrogen at temperatures of minus 80 to minus 90 degrees Fahrenheit.

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Lake Olympia Animal Hospital’s growth reflects community’s expansion

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The Lake Olympia Animal Hospital, located at 20413 South University Blvd., has grown up alongside Missouri City.

Dr. Michael Jacob and Dr. Terry Dobson opened it in 1985 in a 1,650 square feet facility near Quail Valley.

They moved to a 4,400 square foot location in Glen Lakes and recently relocated to their current 12,000 square foot building in Riverstone.

As Missouri City has shifted from a rural to a suburban community, Lake Olympia has continued to meet the communitys needs. They primarily treat dogs and cats, but occasionally gerbils and hamsters. Dobson sometimes does outpatient work with horses.

The Hospital, which employs six doctors, provides general medicine, dentistry, pain management, radiography and stem cell therapy, vaccinations and ultrasonography.

It draws patients from all over Greater Houston for its rehabilitation programs, which are coordinated by Dr. Adrianne Brode. Some of the services include post-surgical, much the same way that people visit physical therapists after their surgeries.

Very few have the equipment that we have, Jacob said. Its kind of a unique thing.

Doctors Heather Remark, Mary McCaine and Glenda Wall practice veterinary medicne at Lake Olympia.

Lake Olympia provides grooming services, boarding services and sells specialized and general dog and cat food.

Jacob earned his undergraduate and veterinary degrees from Texas A&M University.

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The Kevin Loth and Charuth Van Beuzekom of Shadow Brook Farm and Dutch Girl Creamery

The Readers 2012 Guide to Farmers Markets

by Summer Miller

This years Farmers Market Guide goes beyond a list of addresses and websites to tell the stories of farmers you might see throughout the season. We profiled those who make convenience foods, grow vegetables, create cheese and produce grass-fed beef. Of course, there are many more farmers than room in print to tell their stories, which is why The Reader has also designated the first week of every month as Local Food Week. During those weeks we will dedicate space and time to the local producers who grow our food and share whats in season as well as news and events surrounding local food.

Take time this year to introduce yourself and get to know your producers. Many farmers market websites provide links to vendor sites where you can learn more about CSA programs, farm tours, and most importantly, food growing philosophies.

Farm Name: L & L Jacobsen Farm (Range West Beef) Farmers: Luke and Lori Jacobsen Location: Marquette, Ne Products: Grass-fed Beef and Organically-fed Pork (Grain Place Food), pastured chicken eggs Designations: Grass-fed and pastured Years as Farmers: 34 years Which Markets in 2012: Village Pointe, Downtown Omaha Website: www.rangewestbeef.com

Peter Jacobsen stood in the Omaha Stockyards wearing a 3-piece suit and a pocket watch. He posed in front of mud-caked cattle just brought in by rail. It was 1904 and it was the beginning of ranching in Nebraska for this Danish-immigrant family.

Luke Jacobsen, his great grandson continues to tend the same land his family settled in 1892 and although cattle is still the family focus, it has taken on new meaning in todays world and marketplace.

Part of his evolution as a farmer and rancher included switching his cattle operation from grain-fed to grass-fed beef, which wasnt without risk or expense. He credits his wifes job as a first-grade teacher for giving them the flexibility to transform valuable and high-paying farmland from crops to pasture.

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Midlands Vet Uses Stem Cell Therapy for Pets in Pain

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Columbia, SC (WLTX) –What if your pet couldn’t walk anymore? One Midlands vet is using stem cell therapy to help.

For Beth Phibbs it’s almost like a turning back of the hands of time.

“I call her my little miracle dog, because she’s doing things she used to do,” said Phibbs. “Now she’s not on any medication, and she can go up and down the steps and she runs and jumps and things that she used to do when she was five.”

Phibbs has spent the last 13 years loving and looking after her pet dog Maggie, and when she pet began to develop arthritis and a limp she had to take action. But when the first treatments stopped working, Phibbs and Maggie had to look to another options, dog stem cell therapy.

“I had no idea that animals were able to have they type of procedures,” she said.

Dr. Kenneth Banks a veterinarian with the Bank Animal Hospital, performed the surgery for Maggie using her own stem cells in the one day procedure.

Banks said the stem cell therapy not only cost less than some other options, but was less invasive and had a quicker recovery time as well.

Still with about three similar procedures under his belt, even he didn’t expect to see a such change in maggie just 40 days after the surgery.

“I wasn’t sure we were gonna get the results this fast, we were expecting results, maybe not a good as she’s done. We’re real happy with her results,” said Banks.

Now, after three years on medication and walking with a limp, Maggie’s getting used to a new way of life — one with out pain in her golden years.

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Dog receives first stem cell transplant in Mississippi

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BYRAM, MS (WLBT) –

9 year old Pretty Girl, a Rottweiler- Lab mix, has been the center of the world for Eugene and Theresa Marble. Eugene in fact, credits her with adding ten years to his life.”She’s a big part of it. She really is. She actually runs the house.”

Theresa also adores Pretty Girl. “She’s Saints fan. She has a microchip in case she gets lost.”

The much loved pet has brought a lot of joy to the Marbles. And now, as Pretty Girl struggles with osteoarthritis, the couple wants to do something veryspecial for her. “Watching her struggle to walk has been heart wrenching,” Theresa said.

Pretty Girl is one of the first two dogs in Mississippi to undergo a stem cell transplant. Dr. Mike Randall performed both procedures at Randall Veterinary Hospital in Byram.

Pretty Girl gets an I-V, anesthesia, and a close shave to the fatty part of her shoulder. Dr. Randall is removing a portion of fat, which is rich in stem cells. “We take the fat, process the fat. We get the stem cells out. We also get blood from the dog. We pull platelet rich plasma which is growth factors for these stem cells. That will cause the stem cells to adhere to those and have them proliferate and become the tissue they need to be,” Dr. Randall said.

The debilitating effects of osteoarthritis in Pretty Girl’s hind legs are obvious. In the weeks ahead, the stem cells taken from the fat in her shoulder will give her remarkable improvement.”Most of your pain is due to inflamed areas of the joint. So these stem cells can go ahead and adhere to the inflamed areas of the joint and begin to repair those,” Dr. Randall explained.

Pet owners who opt for stem cell therapyare also encouraged to bank the unused stem cells for later use. That eliminates the need for another fat extraction from the canine patient if the injections need to be repeated.

The success rate of stem celltherapy in dogs for osteoarthritis is about 97 percent. The cost is roughly $1,800.00 andbanking stem cells for later use costs about $150.00 a year.

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Stem cell therapy for 13-year-old dog helps with its arthritis

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COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) – A few weeks ago, we told you the story of Maggie, the 13-year-old Boykin Spaniel who was suffering from arthritis.

Maggie is enjoying life once again thanks to a new type of surgery. The dog received stem cell therapy surgery six weeks ago.

Doctors were able to use adult stem cells from Maggie’s blood and fat samples to collect repair cells. They then took the cells and repaired the dog’s arthritic spine.

Maggie’s owner, Beth Phibbs, says she could tell the dog had been in pain.

“You could tell she didn’t feel well, but yet now she is like she’s 5 and she’s 13. She just runs out and she plays. I think she knows. She can feel the difference,” Phibbs said.

The surgery costs about $2,000, but Medi-vet America says this costs about half as much as the older treatments.

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Stem Cell Therapy Used To Treat 9/11 Search And Rescue Dog

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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ)One of the last search and rescue dogs from 9/11 lives here in Maryland. She was suffering from a painful condition until her owner took action with breakthrough technology.

Mary Bubala has the story.

Red is a search and rescue dog from Annapolis, but has traveled across the country. Her missions include Hurricane Katrina, the La Plata tornadoes and the Pentagon after 9/11.

They credit them with finding 70 percent of the human remains so that helped a whole lot of those families actually get closure, said Heather Roche, Reds owner.

Sept. 11 was Reds first search. Today shes one of the last 9/11 search and rescue dogs still alive.

She retired last summer due to severe arthritis.

It would be nice if her arthritis, if she felt better, that she could do those kinds of things that she misses, Reds owner said while fighting back tears. Alright I am going to cry.

Roche did some research and found an animal hospital in northern Virginia that uses breakthrough stem cell therapy to treat arthritis in dogs.

The Burke Animal Clinic is one of just a few across the country that use stem cell therapy.

The vet harvests 1 to 2 ounces of the dogs fatty tissue, activates the stem cells and then injects them back into the troubled areas.

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Vet-Stem Announces StemInsure(R): A Small Fat Sample Now, a Lifetime of Stem Cells Later

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POWAY, CA–(Marketwire -03/22/12)- Vet-Stem announced today the introduction of StemInsure. The StemInsure service provides banked stem cells that can be grown to supply a lifetime of stem cell therapy for dogs. One fat collection, in conjunction with another anesthetized procedure, gives access to a lifetime of stem cells.

Vet-Stem has trained over 3,500 veterinarians, provided stem cells for over 8,000 animals in the US and Canada and currently banks more than 25,000 doses for future therapeutic use. Many veterinarians and their clients have requested a method to collect and store stem cells when a dog is young, before it needs the regenerative cells for therapy. StemInsure was designed to meet this need.

A Vet-Stem credentialed veterinarian can collect as little as 5 grams of fat (about the size of a grape) from a dog or puppy during an anesthetized procedure. Many veterinarians and owners are electing to do this fat collection in conjunction with a spay or neuter. This small amount of fat is processed and stem cells are cryopreserved in Vet-Stem’s state-of-the-art facility. The cells can be cultured in the future to provide enough stem cells to last for the lifetime of the dog. More information can be found at www.vet-stem.com/steminsure.php.

“Vet-Stem is pleased to provide StemInsure as a solution to the thousands of veterinarians and dog owners who recognize the value of Vet-Stem cell therapy. The ability to store the cells in conjunction with another procedure is a great way to ensure that the dog will have access to a lifetime of cell therapy while reducing the number of anesthetic events,” said Dr. Bob Harman, DVM, MPVM, and CEO of Vet-Stem. Dr. Harman continued, “Currently, Vet-Stem Regenerative Cell Therapy is widely used to treat osteoarthritis, and tendon/ligament injuries. It is our expectation that the therapeutic use of adipose derived stem cells will continue to expand and add to the value of a lifetime supply of stem cells for dogs.”

About Vet-Stem:In January of 2004, Vet-Stem introduced the first veterinary stem cell service in the United States. Since that time there has been rapid adoption of this technology for treatment of tendon, ligament, and joint injuries by the veterinary community. Studies have shown that mesenchymal stem cells can dramatically improve the healing of injuries and diseases that have had very few treatment options in the past.

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Rescue dogs get stem cell treatment

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(WRC/NBC) There is a breakthrough treatment using stem cellsthat’s helping search-and-rescue dogs.

Theanimals played key roles on Sept. 11, 2001and in other disasters. Nowthe therapy is part of the recovery process after years of heroic work.

Red’s first assignment as a search, rescue and recovery dog was at the Pentagon following the 911 attacks.

Her handler, Heather Roche said “she handled it like a pro.”

“She didn’t care about the machinery, bobcats moving the debris and all the people and everybody in their Tyvek suits looking funny with the respirators, and she didn’t mind any of it and went to work,” Roche said.

Now the 911 hero is in bad shape. All those years of rescue work, and a 12-foot fall from a ladder, have taken a toll.

Arthritis forced her into retirement in July.

On Tuesday, the 12-year-old black Labrador received a breakthrough stem cell treatment to ease her pain and give her more mobility.

The procedure was performed by Dr. John Herrity at the Burke Animal Clinic, where he’s done more than two dozen stem cell operations.

Medivet America developed the technology and donated the cost of the procedure.

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