Regulating Foreign‐Body Responses: Development of Cationic Polymer Coatings to Regulate Foreign‐Body Responses (Adv. Mater. 24/2011)

Daniel G. Anderson and coworkers, on p. H189, synthesized a library of cationic polymers that drastically affect the morphology and behavior of monocyte/macrophage cells in vitro when immobilized on a surface, and modulate early inflammatory reactions in vivo. Certain polymers are found capable of mitigating the foreign body responses.