Article
Difference in the blood monocyte phenotype between uremic patients and healthy controls: its relation to monocyte differentiation into macrophages in the peritoneal cavity.
Inflammation - 1 Feb 1998
Brauner A, Lu Y, Halldén G, Hylander B, Lundahl J
Abstract excerpt
The phenotypic alterations between blood monocytes from 11 patients with end-stage renal disease, who had been on peritoneal dialysis for less than one week, and blood monocytes from 10 healthy controls, were analyzed. In addition, peritoneal macrophages in the dialysate effluent were enclosed. A...
Topics
- Adult
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Antigens, CD
- Cell Adhesion
- Female
- HLA-DR Antigens
- Humans
- Immunophenotyping
- Kidney Failure, Chronic
- Macrophages, Peritoneal
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Monocytes
- Peritoneal Cavity
- Peritoneal Dialysis, Continuous Ambulatory
- Phenotype
- Receptors, IgG