The World Health Organization's ATC classification organizes medical drugs based on therapeutic properties, chemical composition, and anatomy. It helps make essential medicines readily available globally and is widely used in the pharmaceutical industry.
Level | Code | Title | |
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1 | L | Antineoplastic and immunomodulating agents | |
2 | L01 | Antineoplastic agents | |
3 | L01X | Other antineoplastic agents | |
4 | L01XL | Antineoplastic cell and gene therapy | |
5 | L01XL07 |
Active Ingredient | Description | |
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Idecabtagene vicleucel |
Idecabtagene vicleucel is a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-positive T cell therapy targeting B-cell maturation antigen (BCMA), which is expressed on the surface of normal and malignant plasma cells. The CAR construct includes an anti-BCMA scFv-targeting domain for antigen specificity, a transmembrane domain, a CD3-zeta T cell activation domain, and a 4-1BB costimulatory domain. Antigen-specific activation of idecabtagene vicleucel results in CAR-positive T cell proliferation, cytokine secretion and subsequent cytolytic killing of BCMA-expressing cells. |