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by pfdietz 808 days ago
-ab means it's an antibody. There are many kinds of antibodies, not just to those two proteins.
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And -mab means monoclonal antibody. But your point still stands, there is a huge number of -mab drugs out there today.
It's a really great technology, and not just for drugs. It deservedly won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1984.