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  • noun A monoclonal antibody under investigation for the treatment of ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease.

Etymologies

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-mab

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Examples

  • Takeda starts late-stage trials of bowel drug vedolizumab

    PharmaTimes World News 2009

  • Japan's Takeda says that its Millennium Pharmaceuticals unit has initiated two Phase III clinical trials for vedolizumab, its investigational compound for inflammatory bowel disease.

    PharmaTimes World News 2009

  • The trials, known as the Gemini programme, will study vedolizumab for the treatment of ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, the two main types of IBD.

    PharmaTimes World News 2009

  • "the unique gut-selective targeting of vedolizumab has the potential to benefit IBD patients without compromising systemic immune function."

    PharmaTimes World News 2009

  • Dosing of the first patient in the Phase III development program of vedolizumab is an exciting milestone, "said Brian Feagan, professor of medicine at the University of Western Ontario,

    PharmaTimes World News 2009

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