Description
What Ocrevus is?
OCREVUS is a prescription medicine used to treat:
- Relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis (MS), to include clinically isolated syndrome, relapsing-remitting disease, and active secondary progressive disease, in adults.
- Primary progressive MS, in adults.
What ocrelizumab is?
Ocrelizumab, sold under the brand name Ocrevus, is a pharmaceutical drug for the treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS). It is a humanized anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody.[3] It targets CD20 marker on B lymphocytes and hence is an immunosuppressive drug.[4] Ocrelizumab binds to an epitope that overlaps with the epitope to which rituximab binds
