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For Mr. Roemer's class.

Overview Article

Immune Response to Implants
An excellent overview with links to specific articles that might be useful for your project. See the librarians if you need help finding the articles.

New Advances

Polymer Could Prevent Rejection of Implants (Polymer Solutions)

Encyclopedias

Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine (2011)
In-depth articles about various aspects of medicine, including procedures and treatments.
Britannica Online Academic
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The highly regarded general encyclopedia, with supplementary materials.

Journal Articles

JSTOR
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Articles from over 1500 scholarly journals in all subject areas, going back to their first issues (but not including the most recent years).

Suggested searches: Use the Advanced Search and combine truncated (shortened) terms like surg* or implant* together with immun* (the truncation picks up alternate endings - for example, surgery, surgeries, or surgical and immune or immunity.

PubMed
The National Library of Medicine provides articles about medical research to the public.

Citing Sources

Noodletools
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Purdue OWL: Research and Writing
MLA In-Text Citations (Purdue OWL)
Sample MLA Works Cited List (Purdue OWL)