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SUBMITTER: Jhunjhunwala S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4565661 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jhunjhunwala Siddharth S Aresta-DaSilva Stephanie S Tang Katherine K Alvarez David D Webber Matthew J MJ Tang Benjamin C BC Lavin Danya M DM Veiseh Omid O Doloff Joshua C JC Bose Suman S Vegas Arturo A Ma Minglin M Sahay Gaurav G Chiu Alan A Bader Andrew A Langan Erin E Siebert Sean S Li Jie J Greiner Dale L DL Newburger Peter E PE von Andrian Ulrich H UH Langer Robert R Anderson Daniel G DG
PloS one 20150910 9
In vivo implantation of sterile materials and devices results in a foreign body immune response leading to fibrosis of implanted material. Neutrophils, one of the first immune cells to be recruited to implantation sites, have been suggested to contribute to the establishment of the inflammatory microenvironment that initiates the fibrotic response. However, the precise numbers and roles of neutrophils in response to implanted devices remains unclear. Using a mouse model of peritoneal microcapsul ...[more]