Assessment of tissue reactions to biomaterials: a model system using the foreign body response in the mouse lung to intravenously injected divinyl copolymer beads

Journal of Biomedical Materials Research
C I HoodL D Mickley

Abstract

We have developed a reproducible model of granuloma formation in the mouse lung using a narrow size range (45-53 micron) of divinyl benzene copolymer beads as a standard test material. Approximately 10,000 beads are given by intravenous injection into the tail veins of mice whence they embolize to the lung and incite granuloma formation. This delivery system eliminates the superimposed inflammatory reaction due to trauma that occurs when materials are directly implanted at the test site by surgical incision. Granuloma size was quantitated at intervals from 3 h to 6 weeks by tracing mid-bead granuloma areas on the ground glass screen of a light microscope at a known magnification and measuring the areas with a digitizer interfaced with a microcomputer programmed to prepare histograms and to merge data from replicate experiments. At 3 h only a few polymorphonuclear leukocytes could be observed adhering to the beads. At 48 h, the time of maximum granuloma size (mean area = 7501 micron2), the granulomas consisted of both polymorphonuclear and mononuclear leukocytes. After 6 weeks, the granulomas were smaller, composed predominantly of mononuclear leukocytes and had a mean area of 2893 micron2. This model system allows the analysis ...Continue Reading

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