Tattoos Persist After Dermal Macrophages Are Killed (IMAGE)

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Tattoos Persist After Dermal Macrophages Are Killed

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Because tattoo pigment can be recaptured by new macrophages, a tattoo appears the same before (left) and after (right) dermal macrophages are killed.

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Baranska et al., 2018

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