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Chapter 4 Immune Response

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There is increasing concern about the role of specific immune response to implanted materials. This section discusses the general principles governing immune responses and outlines techniques for their measurement and evaluation. This is a necessarily brief presentation of the issues, and the reader is encouraged to pursue the topic through relevant references provided for further study.

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  1. Department of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, University of Wisconsin Department of Biomedical Engineering and, MADISON, Wisconsin, USA

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  3. Staffordshire University (Emeritus), Lyme, Staffordshire, United Kingdom

    Garth Hastings

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Merritt, K. (2016). Chapter 4 Immune Response. In: Murphy, W., Black, J., Hastings, G. (eds) Handbook of Biomaterial Properties. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3305-1_31

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