Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), including ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, is typified by a chronic gastrointestinal inflammatory microenvironment, driven in part by the excessive infiltration and retention of intestinal-homing lymphocytes. A recent class of drugs designed to impair lymphocyte homing, so-called "anti-trafficking agents" (ATAs), have shown some success and include approved drugs such as natalizumab and vedolizumab, which target integrins and impair their interaction with adhesion molecules on epithelial cells. In the case of natalizumab, which targets the α4 integrin subunit, this has also resulted in undesirable blockade of lymphocyte CNS trafficking and reported cases of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML). Etrolizumab is a humanized IgG1κ monoclonal antibody directed against the β7 subunit of gastrointestinal α4β7 and αEβ7 integrins that, due to its target specificity, appears as or more efficacious than vedolizumab and without the CNS effects of natalizumab.
Etrolizumab is currently under investigation for the treatment of ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease.
Centrum Zdrowia MDM, Warszawa, Poland
Hospital Niño Jesus; Servicio de Pediatria - Gastrenterologia y Nutricion, Madrid, Spain
Royal Manchester Childrens Hospital, Manchester, United Kingdom
Covance Research Unit - Daytona, Daytona Beach, Florida, United States
Covance Clinical Research Unit Inc.; Covance Gfi Research, Evansville, Indiana, United States
Covance Clinical Research Unit, Inc, Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Semmelweis Egyetem; Belgyogyaszati es Hematologiai Klinika, Budapest, Hungary
Valley Gastroenterology Consultants, Arcadia, California, United States
University of California San Diego Medical Center, La Jolla, California, United States
Innovative Medical Research of South Florida, Aventura, Florida, United States
LKH - Universitätsklinikum der PMU Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
Clinical Hospital Center Sestre Milosrdnice, Zagreb, Croatia
Medical center Medconsult Pleven OOD, Pleven, Bulgaria
Centro de Investigaciones Medicas Mar Del Plata, Mar del Plata, Argentina
DCC Sv. Pantaleymon OOD, Pleven, Bulgaria
Shafran Gastroenterology Center, Winter Park, Florida, United States
Northwestern University-Feinberg School of Medicine; Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Southwest Gastroenterology, Oak Lawn, Illinois, United States
EMC Instytut Medyczny S.A., Wrocław, Poland
AppleTreeClinics Sp. z o.o., Łódź, Poland
Tartu University Hospital, Tartu, Estonia
Chaim Sheba Medical Center; Pediatrics B North and Pediatric Endocrinology Unit, Tel Hashomer, Israel
Eszak-Kozep-budai Centrum, Uj Szent Janos Korhaz es Szakrendelo, Budapest, Hungary
Vasutegeszsegugyi Nonprofit KiemeltenKozhasznu Kft, Debrecen, Hungary
Rigshospitalet; Afdeling for Tarmsvigt og Leversygdomme, København Ø, Denmark
Semmelweis Egyetem; Belgyogyaszati es Hematologiai Klinika, Budapest, Hungary
University of Alabama Medical Center, Birmingham, Alabama, United States
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