What does it mean when a drug is a biologic?

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asked Dec 16, 2020 in Other- Health by contrarymary (790 points)
What does it mean when a drug is a biologic?

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answered Dec 16, 2020 by LindaHartzell (26,630 points)
A biologic drug is a drug or medicine that is made of made of tiny components like sugars, proteins, or DNA or can be whole cells or tissues.

Biologic drugs or biologic medicines can come from all sorts of living sources including living things such as mammals, birds, insects, plants, and even bacteria.

Biologic drugs or biologic medicines are any pharmaceutical drug product that is manufactured in, extracted from, or semisynthesized from biological sources.

Biologic medications and drugs include a wide variety of products derived from human, animal, or microorganisms by using biotechnology.

Some examples of biologic drugs drugs include abatacept (Orencia), adalimumab (Humira), anakinra (Kineret), certolizumab pegol (Cimzia), etanercept (Enbrel), golimumab .

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