Question

What are biologics used for?

Answer 1

Biologic medicines or biologic drugs are more powerful than some other medications and most times biological drugs are used for treating people with rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, and other forms of inflammatory arthritis.

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 .

Answer 2

Biologic drugs are human-made proteins that are designed to zero in on parts of the immune system that trigger inflammation.

They come from a living source (a human or animal) or its products.

In contrast to most drugs that are chemically synthesized and their structure is known, most biologics are complex mixtures that are not easily identified or characterized.

Biological products, including those manufactured by biotechnology, tend to be heat sensitive and susceptible to microbial contamination.

The anti-inflammatory drug Humira (adalimumab) is not only the best-selling biologic, it's one of the best-selling drugs worldwide, regardless of class.