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
National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
The Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, United States
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