Effects of polymethylmethacrylate exposure upon macrophages

Journal of Orthopaedic Research

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 1988, Pages 827-832

  Horowitz, Stephen M ^a   Frondoza, Carmelita G ^a   Lennox, Dennis W ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Macrophages; Monomer; Polymethylmethacrylate particles

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIALS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING - ORTHOPEDICS; BIOPOLYMERS; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE; POLYSTYRENES;

MACROPHAGES; PMMA;

PROSTHETICS;

BONE CEMENT; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE); POLYSTYRENE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTHROPLASTY; CELL CULTURE; CYTOTOXICITY; DNA SYNTHESIS; FOREIGN BODY GRANULOMA; HISTOLOGY; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PROSTHESIS LOOSENING;

ANIMAL; CYTOTOXICITY, IMMUNOLOGIC; DNA; MACROPHAGES; METHYLMETHACRYLATES; NECROSIS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; THYMIDINE; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0024110249     PISSN: 07360266     EISSN: 1554527X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jor.1100060606     Document Type: Article

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