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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Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States
Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, California, United States
USC / Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California, United States
Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, New Jersey, United States
University of Colorado Cancer Center, Aurora, Colorado, United States
CH Sud Francilien, Corbeil-Essonnes, France
Hôpital André Mignot, Le Chesnay, France
Centre Léon Bérard, Lyon, France
Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States
King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Maryland, United States
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