TY - BOOK AU - Ahmed Reda Sayed AU - Ghada Mahmoud Abdelaziz , AU - Hanan Hassan Fouad , AU - Maissa Saed Elraziky , TI - Assessment of dendritic cells functions in HCV infected patients on hemodialysis / PY - 2013/// CY - Cairo : PB - Ahmed Reda Sayed , KW - CD83 KW - Dendritic cells KW - HCV N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Medical Biochemistry; Issued also as CD N2 - Dendritic cells (DCs) which are derived from bone marrow progenitor cells serve as antigen presenting cells that play a major role in the initiation and maintenance of innate and adaptive immunity . Hepatitis C virus remains prevalent in patient receiving regular dialysis all over the world . It appears that the hemodialysis (HD) procedure per se can preserve patient from an aggressive course of HCV by reducing the virus load UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -