Disclosed is a product and method for transplanting biological fluids into
a host animal (including humans) that have been collected from donor
animals. These biological fluids have been purified and processed so that
they are a cellular, sterile, pathogen free, and a form that can be
stored for considerable periods of time without degradation. In one
embodiment, synovial fluid is harvested from a large number of donors to
produce the transplantation compound. Donor fluid is collected from a
number of joints per animal, and initially screened for obvious
abnormalities (clarity, color, viscosity . . . etc.) and accepted or
rejected on a joint-by-joint basis at the time of collection. The
collected fluid is frozen in the field. Once in a laboratory setting, the
fluid is warmed and spun down in a centrifuge. The supernate is
collected, filtered, and mixed in large batches while the permeate is
discarded. The supernate is re-frozen, lyophilized (freeze-dried) to form
a cake and packaged as an individual dose under vacuum. The product is
sterile, stable, has a long shelf life and can be readily reconstituted
and injected into a joint.