Tattoo Pigment Can Be Recaptured by New Macrophages (IMAGE)

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Tattoo Pigment Can Be Recaptured by New Macrophages

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Green tattoo pigment is taken up by dermal macrophages (left). The pigment is released when these cells are killed (center) but, 90 days later, is taken back up into new macrophages that have replaced the old ones (right).

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Baranska et al., 2018

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