Drug Therapy: Biologics for Cholesterol Management
This interactive scrollable introduces users to what a type of drug called a biologic is, and explores how one biologic called a PCSK9 inhibitor can be used to treat hypercholesterolemia (high levels of LDL or total cholesterol in the blood).
Topics
- AP
- AP Biology
- AP Bio
- next generation science standards
- NGSS
- ALXCollab
- plaque
- antibody therapy
- biologic drug
- biologic
- cardiovascular disease
- cholesterol
- endocytosis
- familial hypercholesterolemia
- hypercholesterolemia
- LDL cholesterol
- LDL-C
- LDL
- LDLR
- lipoprotein
- low-density lipoprotein
- low-density lipoprotein receptor
- mAb therapy
- mAb
- monoclonal antibody
- PCSK9 inhibition
- PCSK9 inhibitor
- PCSK9
- PCSK9i
- proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9
- receptor-mediated endocytosis
- small molecule drug
- small molecule