Safety and efficacy of up to eight years of continuous
etanercept therapy in patients with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis.
The authors led by Chih-Shung Wong of Cathay General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, designed an experiment to evaluate the effects of
etanercept in rats that had been made morphine tolerant.
Etanercept was first evaluated as monotherapy in a phase II, randomized, dose-ranging, double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial.
A total of 43 patients have been switched from infliximab to
etanercept because of toxicity or lack of efficacy.
The contract involves: Delivery of biological medicine
Etanercept.
In these studies, the overall safety profile of ixekizumab was comparable to
etanercept.
Patients with early, active RA were randomized to receive either twice-weekly subcutaneous
etanercept (10 mg or 25 mg) or weekly oral MTX (mean dosage 19 mg/week).
Treatment with subcutaneous
etanercept (50 mg/week) was initiated.
All patients in the study were on monotherapy with methotrexate,
etanercept, adalimumab, ustekinumab, or narrow-band UVB phototherapy (NBUVB).
TNF-[alpha] inhibitors include infliximab and adalimumab, which are among monoclonal antibodies, and
etanercept in receptor form.
In March 2003, her rheumatologist started
etanercept for treatment of refractory psoriasis and discontinued cyclosporin, following which the psoriatic lesions improved.
There are added benefits to methotrexate and
etanercept for rheumatoid arthritis patients, such as myself ("Two arthritis drugs work best in tandem," SN: 3/13/04, p.
NEW YORK -- Collectively hailed as the biggest breakthrough for psoriasis therapy in decades, infliximab,
etanercept, alefacept, and the other "targeted biologics" seem poised to revolutionize how dermatologists treat moderate to severe psoriasis.
Contract award: "delivery of drugs to the drug program: lot 1 -
etanercept, lot 2 - adalimumab, lot 3 - rituximab".
The MAA for the
etanercept biosimilar was based on data from a Phase 3, controlled, randomized, multicenter study in Europe where SB4 demonstrated its comparability to Enbrel[sup.