The neonatal Fc receptor for IgG (FcRn) has been well characterized in the transfer of passive humoral immunity from a mother to her fetus. In addition, throughout life, FcRn …
AC Chan, PJ Carter - Nature reviews immunology, 2010 - nature.com
The development of therapeutic antibodies has evolved over the past decade into a mainstay of therapeutic options for patients with autoimmune and inflammatory diseases …
P Holliger, PJ Hudson - Nature biotechnology, 2005 - nature.com
With 18 monoclonal antibody (mAb) products currently on the market and more than 100 in clinical trials, it is clear that engineered antibodies have come of age as biopharmaceuticals …
Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) have been used in the treatment of various diseases for over 20 years and combine high specificity with generally low toxicity. Their pharmacokinetic …
PJ Carter - Nature reviews immunology, 2006 - nature.com
Antibodies constitute the most rapidly growing class of human therapeutics and the second largest class of drugs after vaccines. The generation of potent antibody therapeutics, which I …
AM Wu, PD Senter - Nature biotechnology, 2005 - nature.com
Immunoconjugates—monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) coupled to highly toxic agents, including radioisotopes and toxic drugs (ineffective when administered systemically alone) …
GM Thurber, MM Schmidt, KD Wittrup - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2008 - Elsevier
Antibodies have proven to be effective agents in cancer imaging and therapy. One of the major challenges still facing the field is the heterogeneous distribution of these agents in …
PM Hogarth, GA Pietersz - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2012 - nature.com
The direct or indirect targeting of antibody Fc receptors (FcRs) presents unique opportunities and interesting challenges for the treatment of inflammatory diseases, cancer and infection …
NM Stapleton, JT Andersen, AM Stemerding… - Nature …, 2011 - nature.com
Human IgG3 displays the strongest effector functions of all IgG subclasses but has a short half-life for unresolved reasons. Here we show that IgG3 binds to IgG-salvage receptor …