Biological therapies for inflammatory bowel disease: Controversies and future options

Expert Review of Clinical Pharmacology

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 391-403

  Papa, Alfredo ^a   Mocci, Giammarco ^a   Bonizzi, Michele ^a   Felice, Carla ^a   Andrisani, Gianluca ^a   Papa, Gianfranco ^b   Gasbarrini, Antonio ^a  

^a FONDAZIONE POLICLINICO UNIVERSITARIO A GEMELLI IRCCS   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adalimumab; Anti TNF ; Certolizumab pegol; Crohn's disease; Inflammatory bowel disease; Infliximab; Natalizumab; Ulcerative colitis

Indexed keywords

6 MERCAPTOPURINE DERIVATIVE; ABATACEPT; ABT 874; ADALIMUMAB; ALICAFORSEN; ATLIZUMAB; BASILIXIMAB; CCX 282; CERTOLIZUMAB PEGOL; DACLIZUMAB; FONTOLIZUMAB; GAMMA INTERFERON; INFLIXIMAB; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 12 ANTIBODY; INTERLEUKIN 23; INTERLEUKIN 6; METHOTREXATE; MLN 0002; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; NATALIZUMAB; PLACEBO; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; USTEKINUMAB; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE 1; VISILIZUMAB;

ADULT ONSET STILL DISEASE; APOPTOSIS; BIOLOGICAL THERAPY; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CROHN DISEASE; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; DERMATITIS; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ECZEMA; ENTERITIS; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; INJECTION SITE REACTION; LUPUS LIKE SYNDROME; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; LYMPHOMA; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PARAKERATOSIS; PATHOGENESIS; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; PSORIASIS; REMISSION; RETROBULBAR OPTIC NEUROPATHY; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

EID: 70149099162     PISSN: 17512433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/ecp.09.12     Document Type: Review

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