Monocytes/macrophages are phagocytic innate immune cells playing a pivotal role in tissue homeostasis, inflammation, and antitumor immunity microenvironment-dependent manner. By expressing pattern recognition scavenger receptors on their surface, macrophages selectively take up pathogens, cellular debris, often—undesirably—drug delivery systems. On the other hand, propensity of to internalize p...

More and more firms make use of virtual communities to interact with customers, particularly in the light of open innovation. Although companies invest enormous effort in developing virtual communities just a minority of these succeed. That means that firms were either unable to recruit the critical mass of users or to motivate users to publish and discuss generated content on the platform. Loo...