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Key Points SCD patients with a recent VOC episode have lower frequencies and numbers of HO-1hi patrolling monocytes. Heme-driven SCD vaso-occlusion is exacerbated in mice lacking patrolling monocytes and reversed following patrolling monocyte transfer.
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