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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Adv Drug Deliv Rev. 2017 May 16;122:74–83. doi: 10.1016/j.addr.2017.05.010

Figure 1. Balance of macrophage phenotypes in tissue repair.

Figure 1

(a) M1-like and M2-like macrophages act sequentially in normal tissue repair to initiate and stabilize multiple repair processes, respectively. (b) An imbalance of either phenotype (in terms of either numbers or timing) impairs tissue healing.