Filgrastim is a short-acting recombinant, non-pegylated human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) analog produced by recombinant DNA technology. It has an amino acid sequence identical to endogenous G-CSF, but it is non-glycosylated unlike the endogenous G-CSF and has an N-terminal methionine added in the sequence for expression in E. Coli. Human G...
Filgrastim is indicated to decrease the incidence of infection‚ as manifested by febrile neutropenia‚ in patients with nonmyeloid malignancies receiving myelosuppressive anti-cancer drugs associated with a significant incidence of severe neutropenia with fever.
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University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center, Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Hospital Infantil Universitario Niño Jesus, Madrid, Spain
Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain
Johns Hopkins Unversity, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Children's National Medical Center, Washington, District of Columbia, United States
University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States
Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
University of Florida Health Shands Cancer Hospital, Gainesville, Florida, United States
Aou Citta' Della Salute E Della Scienza Di Torino, Divisione Di Ematologia, Sscvd Trapianto Allogenico, Torino, Italy
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center - Adults, New York, New York, United States
Karmanos Cancer Institute, Detroit, Michigan, United States
Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center Bone Marrow Transplant Program, Richmond, Virginia, United States
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