Immunosuppressive Agents In Uveitis – My Experience

New Immunosuppressive Therapies in Uveitis Treatment

Uveitis is an inflammatory process that initially starts in the uvea, but can also affect other adjacent eye structures, and is currently the fourth cause of blindness in developed countries. Corticoids are probably the most widespread treatment, but resorting to other immunosuppressive treatments is a frequent practice. Since the implication of different cytokines in uveitis has been well demo...

Medicinal Plants as Immunosuppressive Agents in Traditional Iranian Medicine

[Immunosuppressive agents in Dermatology].

Immunosupressants are drugs that act in cell division and have anti-inflammatory effects. Therefore, they are essentially prescribed in the prevention of transplant rejection and in the treatment of autoimmune disorders and chronic inflammatory diseases, whose main example in Dermatology is psoriasis. In this work the most important immunosuppressive drugs and orientation to properly administer...

Pharmacological immunosuppressive agents.

A vast range of different compounds seem capable of depressing the immune response, however, it has been disappointing that so few of these have shown potential as immunosuppressive agents in man. The action of many has been to suppress lymphocyte reactivity in vitro and of those that are capable of prolonging graft survival in animals in addition, just a handful have been found to be safe and ...

Differences among immunosuppressive agents.

Immunosuppressive agents have diverse (although often multiple) sites of action in the cell sequences that are involved in immune responses. New routes to selectivity are apparent at both the cellular and the biochemical level. Meanwhile, clinical work is finding new uses and more selective employment of the currently available agents.