Vets use fish skins as grafts, putting burned Rottweiler on road to recovery

The collagen-rich properties of fish skin have seen it gain some serious utility as a tool for treating burns, with tilapia grafts in particular coming to the aid of animals badly injured in last year's California wildfires. Veterinarians have now used a new form of this approach to bring a severely burned Rottweiler back from the brink of death, an outcome they hope will lead to new and improved treatments for other burn victims of the animal kingdom.

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Category: Science

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• Burns
• Dogs
• Michigan State University
• Veterinary Medicine

from New Atlas (Gizmag) http://bit.ly/2Mb2nS0