Journal of International Pharmaceutical Research 2014;(4):424-428

doi:10.13220/j.cnki.jipr2014.04.007

Main biologics for anti-autoimmune disease:research advances

Weihua HOU ; Wei MO ; Min YU

Keywords

autoimmune disease; biologics; immunosuppression

Country

China

Language

Chinese

Abstract

Immune system is a security guard to help human body repel or remove bacteria, viruses, parasites and other fore-ign invaders .But when some tissue components or the immune system itself become abnormal, it can not distinguish friend from foe accurately and may attack our own tissue then cause some clinical symptoms, leading to autoimmune diseases. Nearly 5 % of the world's population suffer from various autoimmune diseases. By now in addition to control the formation of autoantigens such as infection,tiredness, the main biologics used in clinic are immunoregulators to block pathological autoimmune response and then to create a new proper immune response. Recently, new biologics to treat autoimmune disease come into being one after another, and this article gives a brief overview about research progress in anti-autoimmune disease biologics.