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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St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States
Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
Dana Farber Cancer Institute/Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Dana Farber Cancer Institute/Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
Celerion, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
Hôpital necker-Enfants malades, Paris, France
Universitätsklinikum Essen, Essen, Germany
Klinikum der J.W. Goethe- Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
Charité-Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Berlin, Germany
Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, India
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