biological medicinal product
- Definition
- A biological medicinal product is a medicinal product whose active substance is made by or derived from a living organism. Encompass most drugs whose manufacture involves purification from biological sources such as human or animal tissue or body fluids, or micro-organisms, including those derived using biotechnology. Typical examples include blood and blood products, vaccines, biological response modifiers (growth factors, cytokines, etc.) protein hormones, gene therapy vectors, and cell-based products. Biologics can consist of any virus, therapeutic serum, toxin, ntitoxin, or analogous product used in the prevention, treatment or cure of diseases or injuries in humans. Biologics make up one large category of drugs; the other major category of drugs is pharmaceuticals, or synthetic drugs made from chemicals.
- Used For
- biologic product
- biological
- biological drug
- large molecule drug
- Broader Term
- medicinal product
- Narrower Term
- blood product
- gene-therapy medicine
- Related Term
- biologic active pharmaceutical ingredient
- biologics license application
- biosimilar medicinal product
- biotechnology
- parent organism
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