Encyclopedia: Immunosuppressive Drugs
. Immunosuppressive drugs, immunosuppressive agents, or immunosuppressants are drugs that inhibit or prevent activity of the immune system. They are used in immunosuppressive therapy to: , Prevent the rejection of transplanted organs and tissues , Treat autoimmune diseases or diseases that are most likely of autoimmune origin . , Treat some other non-autoimmune inflammatory diseases . These drugs are not without side-effects and risks. Because the majority of them act...
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What does a major/massive cytokine cascade do to a human? would immunosuppressive drugs stop it?...
What does a major/massive cytokine cascade to do a human? and would immunosuppressive drugs...
What does a major/massive cytokine cascade to do a human? and would immunosuppressive drugs...
A massive ctyokin cascade is termed a cytokin storm which is often fatal. I think its treated with corticosteroids like prednisone. Immunosupressive drugs typically do not elicit a...
Asked by Peter V - 26 months ago
ok, Tracolimus is an immunosuppressive drug and polymyositis an autoimmune disease.?
still the rationale to giving it to someone without the knowledge of a cause to...
still the rationale to giving it to someone without the knowledge of a cause to...
there are many questions in medicine that are not answered. When a drug works, sometimes you just go with it. There are many chemotherapy drugs that they don't know how...
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