ipilimumab
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Ipilimumab, sold under the brand name Yervoy, is a monoclonal antibody medication that works to activate the immune system by targeting CTLA-4, a protein receptor that downregulates the immune system.
Chemical data
Drug data · ChEMBL
- Max clinical phase
- Approved
- Molecule type
- Antibody
- First approval
- 2011
- Admin. routes
- parenteral
- Indications
- carcinoma, melanoma, prostate carcinoma, metastatic melanoma
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Research
7,201 papers- Improved survival with ipilimumab in patients with metastatic melanoma.The New England journal of medicine · 2010
- Five-Year Survival with Combined Nivolumab and Ipilimumab in Advanced Melanoma.The New England journal of medicine · 2019
- Overall Survival with Combined Nivolumab and Ipilimumab in Advanced Melanoma.The New England journal of medicine · 2017
- Nivolumab plus ipilimumab or nivolumab alone versus ipilimumab alone in advanced melanoma (CheckMate 067): 4-year outcomes of a multicentre, randomised, phase 3 trial.The Lancet. Oncology · 2018
- The foundations of immune checkpoint blockade and the ipilimumab approval decennial.Nature reviews. Drug discovery · 2022
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- chemical compound
- Has use
- medication
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- route of administration
- intravenous infusion and defusion
- World Health Organisation international non-proprietary name
- ipilimumab
- medical condition treated
- skin cancer
- has characteristic
- biopharmaceutical
- subject has role
- monoclonal antibody
- physically interacts with
- cytotoxic T-lymphocyte associated protein 4
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Encyclopedic overview
15 sectionsContents
- Medical uses
- Adverse effects
- Interactions
- Mechanism of action
- Pharmacokinetics
- History
- Clinical trial history
- Melanoma
- Prostate cancer
- Lung cancer
- Urothelial cancer, including cancer of the bladder, urethra, ureters and renal pelvis
- Combination trials
- Advanced melanoma
- References
- External links
Ipilimumab, sold under the brand name Yervoy, is a monoclonal antibody medication that works to activate the immune system by targeting CTLA-4, a protein receptor that downregulates the immune system.
Cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) can recognize and destroy cancer cells. However, an inhibitory mechanism interrupts this destruction. Ipilimumab turns off this inhibitory mechanism and boosts the body's immune response against cancer cells.
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