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 acellular, 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.