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nbme13/Block 1/Question#29 (reveal difficulty score)
A 43-year-old woman with metastatic colon ...
The agent being a humanized antibody ๐Ÿ” / ๐Ÿ“บ / ๐ŸŒณ / ๐Ÿ“–
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submitted by โˆ—trazobone(97)
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This is straight up testing if you knew Ab nomenclature ๐Ÿ™„. -umab designates human origin while -omab designates murine origin. So bevacizumab is a humanized Ab. The other answer choice saying it was a murine Ab directed against VEGF was designed to trick you. Luckily I did not fall for such witchery.

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trazobone  This is straight up testing if you knew Ab nomenclature ๐Ÿ™„. -umab designates human origin while -omab designates murine origin. So bevacizumab is a humanized Ab. The other answer choice saying it was a murine Ab directed against VEGF was designed to trick you. Luckily I did not fall for such witchery. IN CASE ANYONE TRIES TO SCRAMBLE +4



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