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Implanted materials

Larger is stealthier

Nature Materials volume 14, pages 558–559 (2015)Cite this article

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Implanted spheres with a diameter larger than 1.5 mm escape fibrotic responses, thereby extending the survival time of the encapsulated therapeutic cells.

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Figure 1: Foreign body response to alginate spheres encapsulating insulin-producing islet cells.

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  1. Ruud A. Bank is in the Department of Pathology and Medical Biology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, 9713 GZ Groningen, The Netherlands,

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