Autologous

Autologous is a medical term that means “taken from own.” It describes vaccines, stem cell therapy, bone marrow transplants, and any other procedure that uses the dog’s own tissues, cells, or DNA to create a treatment. For example, autologous vaccines are custom-made vaccines. The manufacturer takes a tissue sample of a tumor and makes a vaccine out of it. Once injected into the dog, that vaccine targets the exact tumor it was created from.