Promising Immunosuppressive Results Through 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 immune system is one of the most important system of the body specifically to one's health. In fact, some people take vitamin supplements to aid their immune system. The stronger it is, the more invincible man becomes. It's all very simple if you think of it, however this may not always be the case sometimes, there are abnormalities in your immune system which causes your cells to attach your own body, hence the term Autoimmune Disease.

Originally clodronic acid is biphosphonate, anti-osteoporotic drug. It was approved for the treatment and prevention of osteoporosis particularly to women and hyperparathyroidism, hypercalcemia and vertebral fracture to men. It was noticed that clodronic acid has a potent analgesic and anti inflammatory effects as it significantly reduced important inflammatory markers.

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.

Autoimmune diseases are medical conditions caused by the immune system itself. Macrophages, the core cell of the immune system, attack healthy cells causing inflammation such as those in multiple sclerosis, pernicious anemia, rheumatoid arthritis and so on. During transplant, macrophages may also attack the new cells coming from the graft causing the body to reject it.

Using the liposomes as a drug vehicle, clodronic acid will be delivered into your phagocytic cell, or macrophages damaging it irreversibly then kills it eventually through apoptosis. Aptly name as the macrophage "suicide'', this will result to a decreased or minimal immune reaction hence patients with autoimmune disease may show improvement from their condition.

Additionally, transplant rejection will be prevented perhaps improving the patient's quality of life. With cancer, clodronic acid showed promising results in improving the action of anti tumor drugs by increasing its level of plasma absorption. Cancer is a strong disease to fight and it needs the patient to be very responsive to his treatment to achieve good results. Clodronic acid does not cure cancer but rather, pose as a good conjunctive therapy for anti tumor or antineoplastic drugs.

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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