PMID- 26463246 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20161213 LR - 20191210 IS - 2212-3911 (Electronic) IS - 1574-8863 (Linking) VI - 11 IP - 1 DP - 2016 TI - Biologic Therapy in Inflammatory and Immunomediated Arthritis: Safety Profile. PG - 22-34 AB - The increasing insights into the pathogenetic mechanisms of inflammatory autoimmune arthritis and the development of innovative systems of industrial production have led to discover molecules that are able to target/block other molecules that play a critical role in the immune system functioning, and that have been introduced in clinical practice alone and/or in addiction with other "old" disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs. For this reason, such drugs are currently known as "biological drugs" and include molecules that induce the immunosuppression acting on several immune pathways. However, though the biological drugs have been employed from more than a decade, there still exist some drawbacks of their use, in particular about the high costs of this therapy and their overall safety, including the route of administration for the intravenous use. In this review we provide an update on the correct use and current therapeutic indications of such drugs, including some of the new biologic therapies that will be soon available for the clinical use, focusing on these biological drugs: * Tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) inhibitors (adalimumab, certolizumab-pegol, etanercept, golimumab and infliximab); * The T cell co-stimulation inhibitor, abatacept; * The anti-CD20 receptor monoclonal B cell agent, rituximab; * The interlukin-6 (IL-6) receptor-blocking monoclonal antibody, tocilizumab; * The interlukin-1 (IL-1) inhibitor, anakinra; * The interlukin-IL17 (IL-17) pathway inhibitors (ustekinumab, secukinumab, brodalumab). FAU - Luchetti, Michele Maria AU - Luchetti MM AD - Dipartimento Scienze Cliniche e Molecolari, Sezione di Clinica Medica, Polo Didattico, Universita Politecnica delle Marche, Via Tronto 10/A, 60020 Ancona, Italy. m.luchetti@univpm.it. FAU - Balloni, Andrea AU - Balloni A FAU - Gabrielli, Armando AU - Gabrielli A LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Review PL - United Arab Emirates TA - Curr Drug Saf JT - Current drug safety JID - 101270895 RN - 0 (Antibodies, Monoclonal) RN - 0 (Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized) RN - 0 (Antirheumatic Agents) RN - 0 (Inflammation Mediators) RN - 0 (Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha) RN - 6ZA31Y954Z (brodalumab) RN - B72HH48FLU (Infliximab) RN - FYS6T7F842 (Adalimumab) SB - IM MH - Adalimumab/therapeutic use MH - Animals MH - Antibodies, Monoclonal/therapeutic use MH - Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized MH - Antirheumatic Agents/*therapeutic use MH - Arthritis, Rheumatoid/*drug therapy/immunology MH - Biological Therapy/adverse effects/*methods MH - Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions/etiology/immunology MH - Humans MH - Inflammation Mediators/*antagonists & inhibitors/immunology MH - Infliximab/therapeutic use MH - Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha/antagonists & inhibitors/immunology EDAT- 2015/10/16 06:00 MHDA- 2016/12/15 06:00 CRDT- 2015/10/15 06:00 PHST- 2015/07/15 00:00 [received] PHST- 2015/09/27 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2015/10/12 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2015/10/15 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2015/10/16 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2016/12/15 06:00 [medline] AID - CDS-EPUB-71069 [pii] AID - 10.2174/1574886310666151014115401 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Curr Drug Saf. 2016;11(1):22-34. doi: 10.2174/1574886310666151014115401.