Biologics for Allergic Disease

Authors

  • Amornrat Prasertcharoensuk Relief and Community Health Bureau, Thai Red Cross Society

Keywords:

biologics monoclonal antibody, allergic disease, asthma; chronic urticaria, atopic dermatitis, chronic rhinosinusitis

Abstract

Biologics are drugs made from biological products and created by biotechnology. Monoclonal antibody drugs are biological drugs that mechanisms directly to the molecular level such as cytokines or immunoglobulins. Monoclonal antibodies are a very effective treatment in cancer disease, autoimmune disease, diabetes mellitus, and allergic diseases such as Asthma, Chronic urticaria, Atopic dermatitis, and Chronic rhinosinusitis. Monoclonal antibody drugs have become the new drugs of choice for the treatment of patients who have not responded to standard treatment. This article presents to understand the biopharmaceutical production process especially monoclonal antibodies, which from the beginning, aims to explain the structure of monoclonal antibodies, their mechanism of action, the immune response of drugs, dosage, drug administration, and how to use them in the treatment of allergies, including Asthma, Chronic urticaria, Atopic dermatitis, and Chronic rhinosinusitis. In the future, who will choose more monoclonal antibody drugs for treatment to match individual or personalized medicine by the particular biological level measurement. Although these medications are expensive, biosimilar drugs have been produced. Biosimilar drugs are replicated from biological drugs, but cheaper than biological drugs. There fore, in the future, the widespread use of monoclonal antibody drugs will increase and learning the mechanism of the action mentioned in this article will make it worthwhile.

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2023-08-31

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Prasertcharoensuk A. Biologics for Allergic Disease. J Med Health Sci [Internet]. 2023 Aug. 31 [cited 2024 Jul. 1];30(2):129-45. Available from: https://he01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/jmhs/article/view/265727

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