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Matthias Nahrendorf, M.D.

TitleAssociate Professor of Radiology
InstitutionMassachusetts General Hospital
DepartmentRadiology
AddressMassachusetts General Hospital, Ctr for Systems Biology
Richard B. Simches Research Center, Suite 5.210
185 Cambridge St
Boston MA 02114
Phone617/643-0500
Fax617/643-6133

 Overview 
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My current research interests focus on 1) imaging of molecular processes during the healing phase after myocardial infarction, 2) imaging of heart transplant rejection, and 3) imaging of inflammation in atherosclerotic plaques. Imaging targets are enzymes, innate immune cells and molecular players with a central role in cardiovascular disease. We use the entire spectrum of modalities, including MRI, nuclear and optical imaging techniques. Multimodal imaging, as well as hybrid approaches to fuse molecular data with anatomical information are aspects of particular interest. These technologies are embedded in a biologically driven research program that aims at systematic understanding of inflammation and repair at a basic level while keeping a rigorous translational perspective.


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  1. Jung K, Kim P, Leuschner F, Gorbatov R, Kim JK, Ueno T, Nahrendorf M, Yun SH. Endoscopic time-lapse imaging of immune cells in infarcted mouse hearts. Circ Res. 2013 Mar 15; 112(6):891-9.
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  2. Cortez-Retamozo V, Etzrodt M, Newton A, Ryan R, Pucci F, Sio SW, Kuswanto W, Rauch PJ, Chudnovskiy A, Iwamoto Y, Kohler R, Marinelli B, Gorbatov R, Wojtkiewicz G, Panizzi P, Mino-Kenudson M, Forghani R, Figueiredo JL, Chen JW, Xavier R, Swirski FK, Nahrendorf M, Weissleder R, Pittet MJ. Angiotensin II Drives the Production of Tumor-Promoting Macrophages. Immunity. 2013 Feb 21; 38(2):296-308.
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  3. Swirski FK, Nahrendorf M. Leukocyte behavior in atherosclerosis, myocardial infarction, and heart failure. Science. 2013 Jan 11; 339(6116):161-6.
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  4. Majmudar MD, Yoo J, Keliher EJ, Truelove JJ, Iwamoto Y, Sena B, Dutta P, Borodovsky A, Fitzgerald K, Di Carli MF, Libby P, Anderson DG, Swirski FK, Weissleder R, Nahrendorf M. Polymeric Nanoparticle PET/MR Imaging Allows Macrophage Detection in Atherosclerotic Plaques. Circ Res. 2013 Mar 1; 112(5):755-61.
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  5. van der Laan AM, Nahrendorf M, Piek JJ. Republished: Healing and adverse remodelling after acute myocardial infarction: role of the cellular immune response. Postgrad Med J. 2013 Jan; 89(1047):52-8.
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  6. Kastrup CJ, Nahrendorf M, Figueiredo JL, Lee H, Kambhampati S, Lee T, Cho SW, Gorbatov R, Iwamoto Y, Dang TT, Dutta P, Yeon JH, Cheng H, Pritchard CD, Vegas AJ, Siegel CD, Macdougall S, Okonkwo M, Thai A, Stone JR, Coury AJ, Weissleder R, Langer R, Anderson DG. Painting blood vessels and atherosclerotic plaques with an adhesive drug depot. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Dec 26; 109(52):21444-9.
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  7. Courties G, Nahrendorf M. Enlightened stem cells in the heart: more efficient and safer reporter gene imaging. Circ Res. 2012 Dec 7; 111(12):1486-7.
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  8. Frantz S, Hofmann U, Fraccarollo D, Schäfer A, Kranepuhl S, Hagedorn I, Nieswandt B, Nahrendorf M, Wagner H, Bayer B, Pachel C, Schön MP, Kneitz S, Bobinger T, Weidemann F, Ertl G, Bauersachs J. Monocytes/macrophages prevent healing defects and left ventricular thrombus formation after myocardial infarction. FASEB J. 2013 Mar; 27(3):871-81.
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  9. Chen JW, Figueiredo JL, Wojtkiewicz GR, Siegel C, Iwamoto Y, Kim DE, Nolte MW, Dickneite G, Weissleder R, Nahrendorf M. Selective Factor XIIa Inhibition Attenuates Silent Brain Ischemia: Application of Molecular Imaging Targeting Coagulation Pathway. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2012 Nov; 5(11):1127-38.
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  10. Nahrendorf M. Macrophages in the infarct: Fiery friends or friendly fire? J Mol Cell Cardiol. 2012 Nov; 53(5):591-2.
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  11. van der Laan AM, Nahrendorf M, Piek JJ. Healing and adverse remodelling after acute myocardial infarction: role of the cellular immune response. Heart. 2012 Sep; 98(18):1384-90.
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  12. Sosnovik DE, Nahrendorf M. Cells and iron oxide nanoparticles on the move: magnetic resonance imaging of monocyte homing and myocardial inflammation in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2012 Sep 1; 5(5):551-4.
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  13. Sosnovik DE, Nahrendorf M, Caravan P. Science to practice: how will myocardial inflammation be imaged with MR imaging? Radiology. 2012 Aug; 264(2):309-11.
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  14. Dutta P, Courties G, Wei Y, Leuschner F, Gorbatov R, Robbins CS, Iwamoto Y, Thompson B, Carlson AL, Heidt T, Majmudar MD, Lasitschka F, Etzrodt M, Waterman P, Waring MT, Chicoine AT, van der Laan AM, Niessen HW, Piek JJ, Rubin BB, Butany J, Stone JR, Katus HA, Murphy SA, Morrow DA, Sabatine MS, Vinegoni C, Moskowitz MA, Pittet MJ, Libby P, Lin CP, Swirski FK, Weissleder R, Nahrendorf M. Myocardial infarction accelerates atherosclerosis. Nature. 2012 Jul 19; 487(7407):325-9.
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  15. Xu C, Miranda-Nieves D, Ankrum JA, Matthiesen ME, Phillips JA, Roes I, Wojtkiewicz GR, Juneja V, Kultima JR, Zhao W, Vemula PK, Lin CP, Nahrendorf M, Karp JM. Tracking mesenchymal stem cells with iron oxide nanoparticle loaded poly(lactide-co-glycolide) microparticles. Nano Lett. 2012 Aug 8; 12(8):4131-9.
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  16. Lee H, Lytton-Jean AK, Chen Y, Love KT, Park AI, Karagiannis ED, Sehgal A, Querbes W, Zurenko CS, Jayaraman M, Peng CG, Charisse K, Borodovsky A, Manoharan M, Donahoe JS, Truelove J, Nahrendorf M, Langer R, Anderson DG. Molecularly self-assembled nucleic acid nanoparticles for targeted in vivo siRNA delivery. Nat Nanotechnol. 2012 Jun; 7(6):389-93.
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  17. Degousee N, Simpson J, Fazel S, Scholich K, Angoulvant D, Angioni C, Schmidt H, Korotkova M, Stefanski E, Wang XH, Lindsay TF, Ofek E, Pierre S, Butany J, Jakobsson PJ, Keating A, Li RK, Nahrendorf M, Geisslinger G, Backx PH, Rubin BB. Lack of microsomal prostaglandin E(2) synthase-1 in bone marrow-derived myeloid cells impairs left ventricular function and increases mortality after acute myocardial infarction. Circulation. 2012 Jun 12; 125(23):2904-13.
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  18. Etzrodt M, Cortez-Retamozo V, Newton A, Zhao J, Ng A, Wildgruber M, Romero P, Wurdinger T, Xavier R, Geissmann F, Meylan E, Nahrendorf M, Swirski FK, Baltimore D, Weissleder R, Pittet MJ. Regulation of monocyte functional heterogeneity by miR-146a and Relb. Cell Rep. 2012 Apr 19; 1(4):317-24.
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  19. Vinegoni C, Fumene Feruglio P, Razansky D, Gorbatov R, Ntziachristos V, Sbarbati A, Nahrendorf M, Weissleder R. Mapping molecular agents distributions in whole mice hearts using born-normalized optical projection tomography. PLoS One. 2012; 7(4):e34427.
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  20. Cheng H, Byrska-Bishop M, Zhang CT, Kastrup CJ, Hwang NS, Tai AK, Lee WW, Xu X, Nahrendorf M, Langer R, Anderson DG. Stem cell membrane engineering for cell rolling using peptide conjugation and tuning of cell-selectin interaction kinetics. Biomaterials. 2012 Jul; 33(20):5004-12.
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  21. Majmudar MD, Nahrendorf M. Cardiovascular molecular imaging: the road ahead. J Nucl Med. 2012 May; 53(5):673-6.
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  22. Nahrendorf M, McCarthy JR, Libby P. Over a hump for imaging atherosclerosis: nanobodies visualize vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 in inflamed plaque. Circ Res. 2012 Mar 30; 110(7):902-3.
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  23. Swirski FK, Nahrendorf M, Libby P. The ins and outs of inflammatory cells in atheromata. Cell Metab. 2012 Feb 8; 15(2):135-6.
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  24. Cortez-Retamozo V, Etzrodt M, Newton A, Rauch PJ, Chudnovskiy A, Berger C, Ryan RJ, Iwamoto Y, Marinelli B, Gorbatov R, Forghani R, Novobrantseva TI, Koteliansky V, Figueiredo JL, Chen JW, Anderson DG, Nahrendorf M, Swirski FK, Weissleder R, Pittet MJ. Origins of tumor-associated macrophages and neutrophils. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Feb 14; 109(7):2491-6.
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  25. Novobrantseva TI, Borodovsky A, Wong J, Klebanov B, Zafari M, Yucius K, Querbes W, Ge P, Ruda VM, Milstein S, Speciner L, Duncan R, Barros S, Basha G, Cullis P, Akinc A, Donahoe JS, Narayanannair Jayaprakash K, Jayaraman M, Bogorad RL, Love K, Whitehead K, Levins C, Manoharan M, Swirski FK, Weissleder R, Langer R, Anderson DG, de Fougerolles A, Nahrendorf M, Koteliansky V. Systemic RNAi-mediated Gene Silencing in Nonhuman Primate and Rodent Myeloid Cells. Mol Ther Nucleic Acids. 2012; 1:e4.
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  26. Ahfeldt T, Schinzel RT, Lee YK, Hendrickson D, Kaplan A, Lum DH, Camahort R, Xia F, Shay J, Rhee EP, Clish CB, Deo RC, Shen T, Lau FH, Cowley A, Mowrer G, Al-Siddiqi H, Nahrendorf M, Musunuru K, Gerszten RE, Rinn JL, Cowan CA. Programming human pluripotent stem cells into white and brown adipocytes. Nat Cell Biol. 2012 Feb; 14(2):209-19.
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  27. Rauch PJ, Chudnovskiy A, Robbins CS, Weber GF, Etzrodt M, Hilgendorf I, Tiglao E, Figueiredo JL, Iwamoto Y, Theurl I, Gorbatov R, Waring MT, Chicoine AT, Mouded M, Pittet MJ, Nahrendorf M, Weissleder R, Swirski FK. Innate response activator B cells protect against microbial sepsis. Science. 2012 Feb 3; 335(6068):597-601.
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  28. Lee WW, Marinelli B, van der Laan AM, Sena BF, Gorbatov R, Leuschner F, Dutta P, Iwamoto Y, Ueno T, Begieneman MP, Niessen HW, Piek JJ, Vinegoni C, Pittet MJ, Swirski FK, Tawakol A, Di Carli M, Weissleder R, Nahrendorf M. PET/MRI of inflammation in myocardial infarction. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2012 Jan 10; 59(2):153-63.
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  29. Leuschner F, Rauch PJ, Ueno T, Gorbatov R, Marinelli B, Lee WW, Dutta P, Wei Y, Robbins C, Iwamoto Y, Sena B, Chudnovskiy A, Panizzi P, Keliher E, Higgins JM, Libby P, Moskowitz MA, Pittet MJ, Swirski FK, Weissleder R, Nahrendorf M. Rapid monocyte kinetics in acute myocardial infarction are sustained by extramedullary monocytopoiesis. J Exp Med. 2012 Jan 16; 209(1):123-37.
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  30. Lee S, Vinegoni C, Feruglio PF, Fexon L, Gorbatov R, Pivoravov M, Sbarbati A, Nahrendorf M, Weissleder R. Real-time in vivo imaging of the beating mouse heart at microscopic resolution. Nat Commun. 2012; 3:1054.
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  31. Robbins CS, Chudnovskiy A, Rauch PJ, Figueiredo JL, Iwamoto Y, Gorbatov R, Etzrodt M, Weber GF, Ueno T, van Rooijen N, Mulligan-Kehoe MJ, Libby P, Nahrendorf M, Pittet MJ, Weissleder R, Swirski FK. Extramedullary hematopoiesis generates Ly-6C(high) monocytes that infiltrate atherosclerotic lesions. Circulation. 2012 Jan 17; 125(2):364-74.
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  32. Xu C, Mu L, Roes I, Miranda-Nieves D, Nahrendorf M, Ankrum JA, Zhao W, Karp JM. Nanoparticle-based monitoring of cell therapy. Nanotechnology. 2011 Dec 9; 22(49):494001.
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  33. Su HS, Nahrendorf M, Panizzi P, Breckwoldt MO, Rodriguez E, Iwamoto Y, Aikawa E, Weissleder R, Chen JW. Vasculitis: molecular imaging by targeting the inflammatory enzyme myeloperoxidase. Radiology. 2012 Jan; 262(1):181-90.
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  34. Keliher EJ, Yoo J, Nahrendorf M, Lewis JS, Marinelli B, Newton A, Pittet MJ, Weissleder R. 89Zr-labeled dextran nanoparticles allow in vivo macrophage imaging. Bioconjug Chem. 2011 Dec 21; 22(12):2383-9.
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  35. Kim DE, Kim JY, Nahrendorf M, Lee SK, Ryu JH, Kim K, Kwon IC, Schellingerhout D. Direct thrombus imaging as a means to control the variability of mouse embolic infarct models: the role of optical molecular imaging. Stroke. 2011 Dec; 42(12):3566-73.
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  36. Leuschner F, Dutta P, Gorbatov R, Novobrantseva TI, Donahoe JS, Courties G, Lee KM, Kim JI, Markmann JF, Marinelli B, Panizzi P, Lee WW, Iwamoto Y, Milstein S, Epstein-Barash H, Cantley W, Wong J, Cortez-Retamozo V, Newton A, Love K, Libby P, Pittet MJ, Swirski FK, Koteliansky V, Langer R, Weissleder R, Anderson DG, Nahrendorf M. Therapeutic siRNA silencing in inflammatory monocytes in mice. Nat Biotechnol. 2011 Nov; 29(11):1005-10.
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  37. Panizzi P, Nahrendorf M, Figueiredo JL, Panizzi J, Marinelli B, Iwamoto Y, Keliher E, Maddur AA, Waterman P, Kroh HK, Leuschner F, Aikawa E, Swirski FK, Pittet MJ, Hackeng TM, Fuentes-Prior P, Schneewind O, Bock PE, Weissleder R. In vivo detection of Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis by targeting pathogen-specific prothrombin activation. Nat Med. 2011 Sep; 17(9):1142-6.
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  38. Buxton DB, Antman M, Danthi N, Dilsizian V, Fayad ZA, Garcia MJ, Jaff MR, Klimas M, Libby P, Nahrendorf M, Sinusas AJ, Wickline SA, Wu JC, Bonow RO, Weissleder R. Report of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute working group on the translation of cardiovascular molecular imaging. Circulation. 2011 May 17; 123(19):2157-63.
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  39. Leuschner F, Nahrendorf M. Molecular imaging of coronary atherosclerosis and myocardial infarction: considerations for the bench and perspectives for the clinic. Circ Res. 2011 Mar 4; 108(5):593-606.
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  40. Nahrendorf M, Keliher E, Marinelli B, Leuschner F, Robbins CS, Gerszten RE, Pittet MJ, Swirski FK, Weissleder R. Detection of macrophages in aortic aneurysms by nanoparticle positron emission tomography-computed tomography. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2011 Apr; 31(4):750-7.
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  41. Leuschner F, Panizzi P, Chico-Calero I, Lee WW, Ueno T, Cortez-Retamozo V, Waterman P, Gorbatov R, Marinelli B, Iwamoto Y, Chudnovskiy A, Figueiredo JL, Sosnovik DE, Pittet MJ, Swirski FK, Weissleder R, Nahrendorf M. Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibition prevents the release of monocytes from their splenic reservoir in mice with myocardial infarction. Circ Res. 2010 Nov 26; 107(11):1364-73.
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  42. Swirski FK, Wildgruber M, Ueno T, Figueiredo JL, Panizzi P, Iwamoto Y, Zhang E, Stone JR, Rodriguez E, Chen JW, Pittet MJ, Weissleder R, Nahrendorf M. Myeloperoxidase-rich Ly-6C+ myeloid cells infiltrate allografts and contribute to an imaging signature of organ rejection in mice. J Clin Invest. 2010 Jul; 120(7):2627-34.
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  43. Nahrendorf M, Pittet MJ, Swirski FK. Monocytes: protagonists of infarct inflammation and repair after myocardial infarction. Circulation. 2010 Jun 8; 121(22):2437-45.
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  44. Panizzi P, Swirski FK, Figueiredo JL, Waterman P, Sosnovik DE, Aikawa E, Libby P, Pittet M, Weissleder R, Nahrendorf M. Impaired infarct healing in atherosclerotic mice with Ly-6C(hi) monocytosis. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2010 Apr 13; 55(15):1629-38.
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  45. Nahrendorf M, Keliher E, Marinelli B, Waterman P, Feruglio PF, Fexon L, Pivovarov M, Swirski FK, Pittet MJ, Vinegoni C, Weissleder R. Hybrid PET-optical imaging using targeted probes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010 Apr 27; 107(17):7910-5.
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  46. Swirski FK, Nahrendorf M, Etzrodt M, Wildgruber M, Cortez-Retamozo V, Panizzi P, Figueiredo JL, Kohler RH, Chudnovskiy A, Waterman P, Aikawa E, Mempel TR, Libby P, Weissleder R, Pittet MJ. Identification of splenic reservoir monocytes and their deployment to inflammatory sites. Science. 2009 Jul 31; 325(5940):612-6.
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  47. Nahrendorf M, Waterman P, Thurber G, Groves K, Rajopadhye M, Panizzi P, Marinelli B, Aikawa E, Pittet MJ, Swirski FK, Weissleder R. Hybrid in vivo FMT-CT imaging of protease activity in atherosclerosis with customized nanosensors. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2009 Oct; 29(10):1444-51.
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  48. Nahrendorf M, Sosnovik D, Chen JW, Panizzi P, Figueiredo JL, Aikawa E, Libby P, Swirski FK, Weissleder R. Activatable magnetic resonance imaging agent reports myeloperoxidase activity in healing infarcts and noninvasively detects the antiinflammatory effects of atorvastatin on ischemia-reperfusion injury. Circulation. 2008 Mar 4; 117(9):1153-60.
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  49. Nahrendorf M, Zhang H, Hembrador S, Panizzi P, Sosnovik DE, Aikawa E, Libby P, Swirski FK, Weissleder R. Nanoparticle PET-CT imaging of macrophages in inflammatory atherosclerosis. Circulation. 2008 Jan 22; 117(3):379-87.
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  50. Nahrendorf M, Swirski FK, Aikawa E, Stangenberg L, Wurdinger T, Figueiredo JL, Libby P, Weissleder R, Pittet MJ. The healing myocardium sequentially mobilizes two monocyte subsets with divergent and complementary functions. J Exp Med. 2007 Nov 26; 204(12):3037-47.
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  51. Nahrendorf M, Sosnovik DE, Waterman P, Swirski FK, Pande AN, Aikawa E, Figueiredo JL, Pittet MJ, Weissleder R. Dual channel optical tomographic imaging of leukocyte recruitment and protease activity in the healing myocardial infarct. Circ Res. 2007 Apr 27; 100(8):1218-25.
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  52. Nahrendorf M, Jaffer FA, Kelly KA, Sosnovik DE, Aikawa E, Libby P, Weissleder R. Noninvasive vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 imaging identifies inflammatory activation of cells in atherosclerosis. Circulation. 2006 Oct 3; 114(14):1504-11.
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  53. Nahrendorf M, Hu K, Frantz S, Jaffer FA, Tung CH, Hiller KH, Voll S, Nordbeck P, Sosnovik D, Gattenlöhner S, Novikov M, Dickneite G, Reed GL, Jakob P, Rosenzweig A, Bauer WR, Weissleder R, Ertl G. Factor XIII deficiency causes cardiac rupture, impairs wound healing, and aggravates cardiac remodeling in mice with myocardial infarction. Circulation. 2006 Mar 7; 113(9):1196-202.
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