title: Mobilization of peripheral blood progenitor cells for autografting: chemotherapy and G-CSF or GM-CSF.
abstract: The mobilization of haematopoietic progenitor cells is a multifactorial process, still poorly understood at the molecular level. Mobilized haematopoietic progenitors, as defined by the expression of CD34 cell surface molecule, comprise heterogeneous subpopulations of cells committed to different haematopoietic lineages. Haematopoietic progenitors may be mobilized by chemotherapy alone, haematopoietic growth factors alone, or by chemotherapy plus haematopoietic growth factors. The choice of a mobilization regimen that allows an optimal yield of progenitors with a minimum number of leukaphereses should incorporate, in most patients, a disease-specific chemotherapeutic agent(s) plus a haematopoietic growth factor, to be continued until completion of harvest.
authors.affiliation: The Falck Division of Medical Oncology, Ospedale Niguarda, Cai Granda, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Siena
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bregni
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Gianni
mesh_terms: D000971:Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / Q000494:pharmacology / Q000627:therapeutic use; D016179:Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor / Q000494:pharmacology / Q000627:therapeutic use; D016178:Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor / Q000494:pharmacology / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006410:Hematopoiesis / Q000187:drug effects; D016298:Hematopoietic Cell Growth Factors / Q000494:pharmacology / Q000627:therapeutic use; D019650:Hematopoietic Stem Cell Mobilization / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D006412:Hematopoietic Stem Cells / Q000187:drug effects*; D006801:Humans; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards
chemical_list: D016298:Hematopoietic Cell Growth Factors; D016179:Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor; D016178:Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor