title: Haemopoietic growth factors--from discovery to clinical application.
abstract: The Colony Stimulating Factors (CSFs) are a family of haemopoietic hormones that likely share a common ancestral origin and stimulate white blood cell development. They display unique but overlapping biological functions and stimulate the survival, proliferation, differentiation and functional activation of granulocytes and monocytes/macrophages and their precursor cells in vitro and in vivo. Each hormone has been purified and produced in active recombinant form. Recombinant G-CSF and GM-CSF are now being used around the world in a variety of clinical situations (e.g., in conjunction with chemotherapy and bone marrow transplantation) to promote the formation and function of these leukocytes. These molecules are among the first of a new generation of biological agents that will impact enormously on clinical medicine.
authors.affiliation: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Victoria.
authors.forename: C G
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Begley
mesh_terms: D001855:Bone Marrow Diseases / Q000628:therapy; D016026:Bone Marrow Transplantation; D003115:Colony-Stimulating Factors / Q000502:physiology; D016179:Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor / Q000627:therapeutic use; D016178:Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor / Q000627:therapeutic use; D016298:Hematopoietic Cell Growth Factors / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000627:therapeutic use
chemical_list: D003115:Colony-Stimulating Factors; D016298:Hematopoietic Cell Growth Factors; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D016179:Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor; D016178:Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor