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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Semin Immunol. 2007 Dec 26;20(2):86–100. doi: 10.1016/j.smim.2007.11.004

Figure 2.

Figure 2

In vivo transition from blood-borne monocyte to biomaterial adherent monocyte/macrophage to foreign body giant cell at the tissue/biomaterial interface. There is ongoing research to elucidate the biological mechanisms that are considered to play important roles in the transition to foreign body giant cell development.