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Implanted biomaterials: Dissecting fibrosis

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Intravital microscopy reveals how giant cells and neovascularization drive the fibrotic encapsulation of biomaterials implanted in live animals.

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Figure 1: Intravital microscopy of the foreign-body response using the dorsal-skinfold-chamber technique in live mice.

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  1. Roberto Weigert is at the Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 37 Convent Drive, Bethesda, 20892 Maryland, USA.,

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Weigert, R. Implanted biomaterials: Dissecting fibrosis. Nat Biomed Eng 1, 0016 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-016-0016

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