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18 February 2019
Lipogems® Canine Names a Host of New Referral Centres
The following three centres and veterinary surgeons are now accepting canine referrals
for Lipogems Canine treatment consideration. These practices join the list of
accreditations in the use of Lipogems Canine in the UK alongside Alistair Cliff BVM&S
(Dist) CertAVP MRCVS UK Lead Lipogems Canine Vet Crown Vets Referrals, Inverness, and
Arberth Veterinary Centre, Wales; Stephen Jones BVSc MRCVS & Phil Linge BVMS
GpCert(equ) MRCVS, who are also a mixed practice and able to offer Lipogems Equine.
Alphavet Referrals, Newport, Wales
Dr Russell Chandler BVSc CertSAO MSc(OrthoEng) MRCVS
Taylor Vets, Glasgow, Scotland
Kiara Mills BVMS MRCVS
Vale Referrals, Gloucestershire, England
Richard Artingstall MA VetMB Cert SAS MBA MRCVS & Rachel Mowbray BVSc MRCVS
CCRP
Lipogems Canine is committed to the responsible use of its technology in the veterinary
market. Only veterinary surgeons who have been trained and accredited by our team are
provided with Lipogems kits and authorised to use the technology. Unlike many other
veterinary treatments Lipogems® has come from the human medical world to the
veterinary world with published evidence and data. Two further veterinary practices in
the UK are currently working on our accreditation pathway and will be announced
shortly.
“We have been researching into regenerative medicine for about 5 years now. Obtaining
adipose MSCs from laboratory growth left us with a few concerns i.e. Multiple anaesthetics,
degeneration of samples while in transit and the possibility of sample mix ups.
“We looked at the possibility of preparing MSC’s in house. Obtaining them from bone marrow
seemed invasive and required a relatively large capital outlay on equipment, and space to site
the equipment. There would then be an ongoing cost for the extraction kits.
“We then came across Lipogems. No expensive equipment to be purchased, everything needed
for patient side preparation in the box, excepting fluid packs and a few ml of local anaesthetic,
and a straight forward preparation protocol.
“We have been using Lipogems on equine and canine cases for just over 18 months now on
joints, tendons and ligaments. All treated cases to date have shown dramatic improvements and
all our canine cases are being reported as sound by the owners.
Lipogems therapy has become an important part of our armoury both in improving recovery
from injury and maintaining quality of life for our arthritic patients.”
Steve Jones & Phil Linge, Arberth Veterinary Centre
Lipogems® Canine: A new generation
of regeneration for your dog

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What is Lipogems Canine?
Lipogems® is an easy to use, rapid and cost-effective technique for harvesting and processing
adipose tissue derived Mesenchymal Stromal Cells. Lipogems works by micro-fragmenting
adipose tissue (tissue harvested from fat) obtained from Lipoaspirates, through a non-enzymatic,
mechanical processing using the closed system and disposable device. Adipose tissue is harvested
using a vacuum syringe from around the flank of the dog under general anaesthetic, after the
region has been anaesthetised by local infiltration with sterile saline and adrenaline.
The harvested fat tissue using the Lipogems® device is washed in saline and gently agitated. The
whole procedure from harvesting to the injection is completed in less than 40 minutes in
surgery.
Lipogems Equine
Lipogems® Equine has been available for over two years in the UK with Lead Equine Veterinary
Surgeon Dr Tim Watson with Consultant Lipogems® Equine Vets Dr Murray Shotter and Dr Simon
Woods. In conjunction with a growing list of accredited vets trained by them who are
successfully treating a range of injuries and degenerative diseases in pleasure and sports horses.
For more information about Lipogems® Equine click here or visit www.lipogemsequine.com
Get in touch with the Lipogems® Canine team
If you are a veterinary surgeon and you would like to know more about how to refer a case
please email our General Manager Lucy Wilson or contact one of the referral centres directly:
lucy_wilson@lipogemscanine.com
Further reading and viewing
Click here for Dr Offer Zeira’s paper; Intra-Articular Administration of Autologous Micro-
Fragmented Adipose Tissue in Dogs with Spontaneous Osteoarthritis: Safety, Feasibility, and
Clinical Outcomes
Click here for the list of Lipogems® Canine accredited veterinary surgeons.
Click here to view a video where Professor Arnold Caplan (the world authority on regenerative
science) talks on the application and use of regenerative medicine in humans at the TOBI
conference in June 2016.
Click here to go to our online press pack portal.
Website: www.lipogemscanine.com
About Lipogems® Canine
Lipogems® Equine trades under the UK distributer Lipocast Biotech UK Ltd. The Company also
trains accredited veterinary surgeons in the use and treatments available currently with proven
scientific records. For more information about Lipogems® Canine and Lipocast Biotech UK Ltd
click here or visit www.lipogemsecanine.com
About Alphavet
Alphavet founder and principal Russell graduated from the University of Bristol
Veterinary School, with credits in Veterinary Surgery, Veterinary Medicine and
Veterinary Public Health. Since then he has been awarded a Royal College of Veterinary
Surgeons' Certificate in Small Animal Orthopaedics, this led to the creation of Alphavet
Referrals and the Alphavet Veterinary Centre in 1996.
For more information visit:
Website: www.alpha-vet.co.uk
@lipogemscanine @lipogemsequine
#savingyourbestfriend #savingchampions

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@ Alphavetorthopaedicreferrals
About Taylor Vets
Taylor Veterinary Practice is one of the oldest established veterinary practices in the
world and has been caring for animals in the community, as part of the Cathkin Estate,
for almost two hundred years. In 1826, Master Blacksmith, John Taylor (1801-1857) (1st
generation) moved from Cowgate in Edinburgh to Cathkin and founded a blacksmith
workshop ‘John Taylor Smithy’. The surgery is now known as ‘Taylor Veterinary
Practice’, a large RCVS (Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons) accredited small animal
practice. To this day, Taylor Veterinary Practice at Smithy House continues to work to
Mr Taylor’s vision of giving each and every patient the best care possible, treating every
pet as if their own.
For more information visit:
Website: www.taylorvet.co.uk
@taylorvets
About Vale Referrals
Vale Referrals is a long-established specialist led veterinary referral centre providing
veterinary referrals to the South West, Wales and the Midlands for over 20 years. Vale
Referrals started providing veterinary cardiology referrals through Dr Mark Patteson and
has now developed over the past two decades to provide nine specialist disciplines and
seven specific services in areas in which we excel. Vale Referrals has worked hand in
hand over the years with its first opinion partner practice, Vale Vets. Vale Referrals
provides veterinary referrals all throughout the South West, Midlands and Wales.
Multidisciplinary, Friendly and Affordable Vale Referrals is a multidisciplinary referral
service for veterinary surgeons to refer complex cases for our expert team to diagnose
and treat.
For more information visit:
Website:www.valereferrals.co.uk
@ValeReferrals