Macrophage Repair (VIDEO)

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After the cerebrovascular rupture, a macrophage (green) migrates to the lesion, extends protrusions (arrowhead), adheres to and pulls the ends of the blood vessel (orange) together, and finally leaves the lesion when the repair is accomplished. Duration of imaging is 285 minutes.

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Liu et al./Immunity 2016

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