Meanings
nounritlecitinib (uncountable)
- uncountablemedicineA medication belonging to the class of Tec/Janus kinase inhibitors, used for the treatment of alopecia areata.
Ritlecitinib is an irreversible covalent inhibitor that binds to a distinct cysteine residue in the JAK3 catalytic domain, which other JAK family members lack. […] Ritlecitinib was found to be superior to placebo in a phase II study in RA patients with an inadequate response to MTX (76).
2021 December, Christine Liu, Jacqueline Kieltyka, Roy Fleischmann, Massimo Gadina, John J. O’Shea, “A Decade of JAK Inhibitors: What Have We Learned and What May Be the Future?”, in Arthritis & Rheumatology, volume 73, number 12, →DOI, page 2173
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