Humanized antibodies are given different suffixes to indicate their degree of ‘humanization’. Antibodies with the suffix ‘-zumab’ refer to:

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Humanized antibodies are given different suffixes to indicate their degree of ‘humanization’.  Antibodies with the suffix ‘-zumab’ refer to:

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Antibodies in which the majority of the sequence is of human origin except for the complementarity determining regions (CDR), which are mouse sequence

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Antibodies in which the entire constant and variable regions are human sequence

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Antibodies in which the entire constant and variable regions are mouse sequence

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Fab fragments that are entirely of human sequence

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