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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Nation Children's Hospital, Hanoi, Dong Da District, Vietnam
Children Hospital 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States
Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Royal Marsden Hospital, London, United Kingdom
Poole Hospital, Poole, United Kingdom
Freeman Hospital, Newcastle, United Kingdom
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States
M D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States
Hayat center, Maadi, Cairo, Egypt
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