Monoclonal Antibodies for Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis: A Review of Recently Marketed and Late-Stage Agents

CNS Drugs

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 357-371

  Blinkenberg, Morten ^a   Soelberg Sørensen, Per ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALEMTUZUMAB; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; B LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN; DACLIZUMAB; GSK 3196165; LIVER ENZYME; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; NATALIZUMAB; OCRELIZUMAB; OFATUMUMAB; OPICINUMAB; RITUXIMAB; SECUKINUMAB; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTOR;

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ARTHRALGIA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CHILL; DEPRESSION; DIZZINESS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG SAFETY; ERYTHEMA; FATIGUE; FEVER; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; FLUSHING; GASTROENTERITIS; GOODPASTURE SYNDROME; HEADACHE; HEPATOBILIARY DISEASE; HERPES SIMPLEX; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INFECTION; INFUSION RELATED REACTION; INJECTION SITE PAIN; INSOMNIA; KIDNEY DISEASE; LIVER DISEASE; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PARESTHESIA; PERICARDITIS; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RASH; RELAPSING MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; REVIEW; RHINOPHARYNGITIS; SIDE EFFECT; SINUSITIS; SKIN DISEASE; THROAT IRRITATION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; THYROID DISEASE; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URTICARIA; VAGINITIS; ANIMAL; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, RELAPSING-REMITTING;

EID: 85014922596     PISSN: 11727047     EISSN: 11791934     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40263-017-0414-3     Document Type: Review

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