Fibrosis in Action 1
Fibrosis in Action 1
Devina Thiono, Suman Bose, Lisa Volpatti, Volkan Yesilyurt, Robert Langer, Daniel G. Anderson
Koch Institute at MIT, MIT Department of Chemical Engineering, Institute of Medical Engineering and Science
The immune system does a very good job at identifying what is foreign to our body and does its best to protect us from any intruder. When a biomaterial is implanted, the immune system jumps into action and deposits a layer of cells and protein matrix on the material through a process known as fibrosis and recruits new blood vessels to the site. The images capture this process of vasculogenesis during fibrosis in action.