What is immunofarmacology?
Immo -pharmacology is the penetration of immunology and pharmacology. This specialty in research and medical science focuses on drugs that affect the immune system, whether they suppress, activate or manipulate it in some way. The most famous immunofarmacological agents include drugs against rejection and vaccine.
The basis of immunofarmacology is the immune system itself, a very diverse and complex system that includes a very long list of cells, hormones and other chemical signaling molecules. The immune system can be categorized in a number of different ways, including congenital and adaptive, passive and active and cellular and antibody answers. All these different categories can be targeted at immunofharmacology to produce new treatment procedures and drugs that help treat the disease or simply increase scientific knowledge in this area.
There are two general classes of immunotherapeutic drugs. Those who stimulate or activate the immune system are called immunostimulaNTY , while those that suppress the immune system are immunosuppressants . Each drug class is useful in certain specific situations and immune disorders.
Immutimulants are medicines that can be used to stimulate the immune system. In addition to the drugs themselves, it is known that several vitamins, minerals and other chemicals increase the efficiency of the immune system. While immunosuppressive drugs have been studied more extensive than immunostimulants, this second class of therapeutic substances has so far been shown in the treatment of primary immunodeficiency and cancer, as well as HIV and AIDS. Vaccines and adjuvans are also classified as immunostimulants.
Another part of immunofarmacology deals with immunosuppressive drugs. They are used to suppress the immune system to prevent rejection of transplanted organs and for treat autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and lupus. In bothThe immune system itself causes damage to the body and must be actively suppressed by drugs to prevent further damage. New treatments are constantly evaluated due to the side effects of such drugs. Immunosuppressants are not specific, which means that all immune system activity is suppressed and a person using such a drug is extremely vulnerable to all types of infection.
Immunofharmacological research is not only limited to discovery of new drugs. Research is also involved in exploring how the immune system works to discover new drug goals. For example, research that examines chemical signaling mechanisms between immune cells can provide one or more therapeutic targets for treatment that disrupt chemical signals between specific types of immune cells.