ipilimumab
Noun
Meaning
ipilimumab (uncountable)
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(pharmacology) A human monoclonal antibody being developed as a drug to activate the immune system.
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Those results led to the 2015 U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of ipilimumab in the adjuvant melanoma setting.
Ipilimumab blocks signaling through a receptor on T cells known as CTLA-4 which dampens down the immune system.
Ipilimumab attacks the melanoma cells by keeping the T-cells switched on.
Tumors shrank in 17% of patients treated with nivolumab and 26% of those treated with nivolumab and ipilimumab.