The biological preparation is medicine working on cytokine about function of the body of immunity. At first, about “biological preparation ,” let’s understand “cytokine”.
●About “biological preparation”
I generally call the medicine weakening a function of material “cytokine” about functions of immunity for body with “biological preparation”. I am often given it by an injection and intravenous feeding that the biological preparation is medicine made based on the protein which a creature creates and is digested even if I drink it.
●About psoriasis and cytokine
Cytokine means the material which transmits information from a cell to a cell.
Our body is made of the cells of tens of trillions of and repeats an increase or extinction consistently. A material necessary for the change is cytokine and takes a role to convey the orders such as increases between cells.
Cytokine has various kinds by structure and work, and there are TNF – α (tumor necrosis factor α) and IL-12 (interleukin-12) and IL-23 (interleukin 23) in that. It is important cytokine about function of immunity, but inflammation gets all up excessively by increasing.乾癬は
It was revealed that these cytokine was related with a symptom of the psoriasis recently. TNF – α and IL-12, IL-23 increase for some kind of causes excessively and cause a symptom of the psoriasis. Therefore the biological preparation which targeted these cytokine came to be used for psoriasis treatment.