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JOURNAL ARTICLE
REVIEW
Biologics targeting IL-5, IL-4 or IL-13 for the treatment of asthma - an update.
Expert Review of Clinical Immunology 2017 Februrary
INTRODUCTION: The development of monoclonal antibody-based biologics targeted at inhibition of the Th2 cytokines IL-4, IL-5 and IL-13 represent potentially effective treatments for patients with the glucocorticoid refractory eosinophilic asthma phenotype. Areas covered: Asthma exhibits marked heterogeneity both clinically and at the molecular phenotypic level, requiring specifically targeted treatments to block the key pathways of the disease. It is becoming apparent that significant clinical effects with anti-cytokine-based biologic therapies are more likely in carefully selected patient populations that take asthma phenotypes into account. The development of reproducible and straightforward discriminatory biomarkers may aid identification of those patients most likely to benefit from treatment with these expensive interventions. This narrative review is based on English-language original articles in PubMed or Med-Line that reported significant clinical findings published in the last two years on the evidence demonstrating the effectiveness or otherwise of the targeting of IL-4, IL-5, or IL-13 in carefully selected patients with severe refractory asthma. Expert commentary: The use of a baseline peripheral blood eosinophilia as a simple reproducible biomarker to identify patients with particular sub-phenotypes of asthma to guide the effective use of biologic therapy represents a significant step forward.
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