If the approach works, response modifiers will offer an entirely new family of drugs, perhaps comparable to the antibiotics.
That is one place where antagonists of the biological response modifiers can come in, he said.
Imiquimod belongs to a group of drugs called immune response modifiers.
Such patients are also candidates for studies that evaluate new drugs and biological response modifiers following radiation therapy.
Extracts from some medicinal mushrooms are natural biological response modifiers.
At recurrence, patients should be considered for clinical trials that evaluate new drugs and biological response modifiers.
The new drugs are natural substances, known as biological response modifiers, that are part of the body's own immune system.
In the late '90s, biologic response modifiers changed expectations for patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
In relation to diseases, thymosins have been categorized as biological response modifiers.
In addition, researchers are discovering the natural substances the body uses to hinder the actions of biological response modifiers.