News items Non-healing wound in Nature Biomedical Engineering

21 December 2016

Publication in the journal Nature Biomedical Engineering

Peter Friedl, theme Cancer development and immune defense and Eleonora Dondossola from MD Anderson Cancer Center joint-team apply intravital microscopy to visualize the foreign body response to implanted biomaterials in small animals. They show that neoangiogenesis drives chronic inflammation and scarring which was reverted by anti-angiogenesis therapy and macrophage depletion.  
 

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