Is Humira a steroid?

1 answer | Last updated: Dec 15, 2010
waverider asked...
Is Humira a steroid?
 

RKeatts56 said...

Humira (Adalimumab) is a monoclonal antibody (protein) to TNF-alpha. It binds TNF-alpha and prevents it from binding the TNF-alpha Receptor, thereby inhibiting inflammatory responses. It is not a steroid. (Sources: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/ www.wikipedia.org)

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