Therapeutic Results Of Liposomal Clodronate

By Teri Farley


Everyday scientists and medical doctors work together to discover possible treatments, more likely a better one, for various medical diseases. Up until now, several medical conditions remain incurable such as AIDS and Cancer. But with continuous medical study and experimentation, some experiments have shown promising results, for an instance in autoimmune diseases such as that with liposomal clodronate.

The results concerning clodronate liposome therapy has been quite fascinating. It showed a strong performance in suppressing the immune system which gave a new hope for rejected transplant patients as well as those that have been suffering on the worst stage of their autoimmune disease. Additionally, such therapy also showed positive results in conjunction with cancer drugs.

There are countless of cells that make up the immune system, macrophages however is said be the core of it. Its primary function is to activate natural immunity and regulate non-phagocytic cells. Macrophages play an important role in natural immune response and immunity, and are responsible in maintaining homeostasis by ingesting and digesting microorganism.

Inflammatory marker as the name implies is a sign that inflammation is currently going on. Famous inflammatory markers includes interleukin 6,8 and 1 as well as TNF-alfa. However, these markers are only a tiny part of the immune system. Indeed, the immune system consists of thousands of cells all of which has its own tiny role.

As a whole, the immune system is a major factor in one's health and body. It does protect one on being infected from common viruses which explains why some people take supplementation to strengthen their immune system. But for some unique reason, the immune system could be the culprit to several medical diseases as well as on transplant rejections.

Clodronic acid is administered through the trachea, directly into the lungs and absorbed by the blood stream. Using liposomes as vehicle, the liposome will be ingested by the macrophages through endocytosis. Certain chemicals inside the cells will disrupt the layer of the liposome releasing the clodronate. There will be an accumulation of clodronic acid inside the macrophage and after exceeding threshold, will cause the macrophage to die through apoptosis.

To be able to reduce or halt these immune reactions, it will be necessary to suppress the immune system. Although this mode of treatment is not new, not all method of therapy has proved to be quite a success. Transplant rejections are still prominent and disease progression on patients with autoimmune disease is still unpreventable.

With the discovery of these new therapy, it surely increases the hope of anyone suffering from severe autoimmune diseases to achieve disease remission. This may also decrease the chances of transplant rejection to those patients scheduled for transplantation in any parts of the body. All in all, clodronic acid liposome therapy is promising a good quality of life among patients.

The liposomal clodronate is no doubt a wonder drug as far as autoimmune diseases and transplantation is concerned. Medical studies and experiments are still going on for the therapeutic effect of such therapy in anti neoplastic drugs or Cancer in particular.




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