title: In vitro and in vivo effects of recombinant human erythropoietin plus recombinant human G-CSF on human haemopoietic progenitor cells.
abstract: We tested in vitro the effect of recombinant human erythropoietin (rhEPO) plus recombinant human G-CSF (rhG-CSF) on purified human CD34+ haemopoietic progenitors (HP) and in vivo in patients who had undergone anti-cancer chemotherapy for advanced ovarian cancer. In this preliminary experience we found that, in vitro, rhEPO potentiates the effect of rhG-CSF on HP growth and differentiation toward the granulocyte-macrophage lineage. rhEPO plus rhG-CSF produced in vitro a proliferative stimulus of HP which represents 26% of the maximum stimulation obtained using IL-1, IL-3, IL-6, G-CSF, GM-CSF and stem cell factor in combination. In the patients treated with rhEPO plus rhG-CSF after chemotherapy, we observed a favourable trend for platelet and neutrophil recoveries compared with a control group treated with rhG-CSF alone and a significantly higher haematocrit nadir was observed in the rhEPO plus rhG-CSF series. In the patients treated with rhEPO plus rhG-CSF we observed a significant increase of circulating colony-forming unit granulocyte-macrophage (CFU-GM) and burst forming unit-erythroid (BFU-e) compared with the rhG-CSF series. Our results, in vitro and in vivo, encourage the in vivo use of rhEPO plus rhG-CSF to improve blood cell recoveries of patients who have undergone conventional or high-dose chemotherapy. Moreover, rhEPO plus rhG-CSF was demonstrated to be a good HP mobilising treatment for blood stem cell collection after chemotherapy.
authors.affiliation: Centro Richerche per la Manipolazione dei Costituenti Ematici, Catholic University, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Pierelli
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Menichella
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Scambia
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Teofili
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Iovino
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Serafini
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Benedetti Panici
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Salerno
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Rumi
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Zini
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000008:administration & dosage; D001772:Blood Cell Count; D002454:Cell Differentiation / Q000187:drug effects; D002455:Cell Division / Q000187:drug effects; D003114:Colony-Forming Units Assay; D004357:Drug Synergism; D004921:Erythropoietin / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D005260:Female; D016179:Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D006412:Hematopoietic Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology / Q000187:drug effects*; D006801:Humans; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D008875:Middle Aged; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000097:blood / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000008:administration & dosage
chemical_list: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D004921:Erythropoietin; D016179:Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor