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immunomodulatory drug |
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immunomodulatory drug Clinical pharmacology A therapeutic agent that suppresses the immune system, inhibiting lymphocyte functions, especially T and NK cells; IDs are used to treat IBD–ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease Examples
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nbsp;arthritis with its immunomodulatory drug candidate, MM-093, a recombinant version of human Although no immunotherapies have yet emerged to fulfill immunologists' decades-long hope of developing safe, highly effective, tumor-specific immunotherapies, the field of nonspecific immunomodulatory drugs is enjoying modest success. A comparison of the long-term economic outcomes of four immunomodulatory drug therapies combined with symptom management versus symptom management alone revealed that COPAXONE([R]) (glatiramer acetate injection) was the most cost-effective treatment strategy for relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS). |
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