title: Healing with medical implants: The body battles back.
abstract: Disease or inflammation can have substantial impact on biomaterials performance and the loosely defined term "biocompatibility" (Oliva et al., this issue).
authors: Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
authors: Buddy D
authors: BD
authors: Ratner
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001672:Biocompatible Materials / Q000737:chemistry*; D050091:Dendrimers / Q000737:chemistry*; D003911:Dextrans / Q000737:chemistry*; D007249:Inflammation / Q000378:metabolism*; D008297:Male; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D001672:Biocompatible Materials; D050091:Dendrimers; D003911:Dextrans