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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Valentini N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9717667 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Patients receiving hemodialysis (HD) have more inflammatory monocytes and less plasmacytoid dendritic cells (DCs) compared with healthy controls.Patients on HD who have a poor antibody response to the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) vaccine had fewer monocyte-derived DCs and conventional DCs compared with good responders.The defects in antigen presentation might be possible therapeutic targets to increase vaccine efficacy in HD patients. ...[more]