Eptinezumab 100mg/1ml solution for infusion vials

Eptinezumab is a fully-humanized IgG1 antibody manufactured and designed specifically to bind both alpha and beta forms of the human calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP).[F94,A33105,A33106,A33108,A33114]

Studies since 1985 have demonstrated that CGRP levels increase during acute migraine attacks in migraine-suffering patients but normalize after efficacious sumatriptan therapy.[A33090] Moreover, research has also shown that intravenous administration of CGRP can induce migraine-like attacks in migraine-suffering patients.[A33090] For all these reasons, the binding of CGRP to interfere with its activity was specifically designed to be the form and mechanism of action for eptinezumab. The binding of eptinezumab to natural endogenous CGRP subsequently interferes with its activities, such as its binding to CGRP receptors, for example.