ITGAM and chronic kidney disease: Flow cytometric analysis on blood 8 weeks post-SNX (supplementary material Fig. 2) showed that the monocyte fraction (CD11b+) was significantly (p:0.037) higher in CKD compared to Sham animals (17.5 ± 2.9% of total circulating leukocytes in CKD vs 10.5 ± 1.0% in Sham) (Fig. 1).