Full-dose CHOP chemotherapy combined with granulocyte colony-stimulating factor for aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in elderly patients: a prospective study.
Granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) allows acceleration and dose intensity increase of CEF chemotherapy: a randomised study in patients with advanced breast cancer.
Recombinant human granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor plus recombinant human erythropoietin may improve anemia in selected patients with myelodysplastic syndromes.
Since cytokines are of crucial significance in this process, we decided to examine the role of stem cell factor (SCF), granulocyte macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF), interleukin 3 (IL-3), granulocyte colony stimulating factor (G-CSF), and interleukin 1 alpha (IL-1 alpha), known for their stimulatory effects on in vitro hematopoiesis; and transforming growth factor beta (TGF beta), interferon gamma (IFN gamma) and tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha), known for their inhibitory effect, in the anemia of GCA.