background: stroke is the third leading cause of death. hypothermia has been recognized as an effective method in reducing brain injury. in this study, we assessed the effects of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (g-csf) as a neuroprotective agent and mild hypothermia on mortality, behavioral function, infarct volume, and brain edema in wistar rats. methods: forty male rats were used in fiv...

human granulocyte colony stimulating factor (hg-csf) induces proliferation and differentiation of granulocyte progenitor cells. this glycoprotein is currently being used for treatment of neutropenia, in patients who have undergone bone marrow transplantation. so far, different researchers have tried to enhance hg-csf biological activity and stability. in this study, polymerase chain reaction (p...

background: recently, the use of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (g-csf) has been proposed to improve pregnancy outcomes in reproductive medicine. objective: a systematic review of the current use of g-csf in patients who have difficulty conceiving and maintaining pregnancy was performed. materials and methods: two electronic databases (pubmed/ medline and scopus) were searched. study sel...

Activated neutrophils play a major role in the pathogenesis of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), and persistence of pulmonary neutrophilia is related to poor survival. Interleukin (IL)-8 is implicated in recruiting neutrophils to the lungs but it has been postulated that granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) and granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF), which ...

Abbreviations: acute myeloid leukemia, (AML); American Society of Clinical Oncology, (ASCO); bone marrow, (BM); end stage renal disease, (ESRD); erythropoietin, (EPO); granulocyte colony-stimulating factor, (G-CSF); Granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor, (GM-CSF); hematopoietic growth factors, (HGFs); hematopoietic stem cell, (HSC); hemoglobin, (Hgb); idiopathic thrombocytopenic purp...

We have extended the study of the effects of antisense oligodeoxynucleotides on hematopoietic colony formation to include the effects of antisense to granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF), granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF), and macrophage colony-stimulating factor (M-CSF) on bone marrow cultures. GM-CSF antisense and GM-CSF receptor antisense cause an increase in...

The effects of human recombinant granulocyte/macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) and human native purified granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) on the growth of clonogenic leukemic blast cells from eight Japanese patients with acute myeloblastic leukemia were studied, using an in vitro leukemic blast colony assay. The results showed that GM-CSF stimulated leukemic blast colon...

background: immunotoxins are comprised of both the cell targeting and the cell killing moieties. we previously established a new immunotoxin, i.e. shiga toxin granulocyte macrophage-colony stimulating factor (stxa1-gm-csf), comprises of catalytic domain of stx, as a killing moiety and gm-csf, as a cell targeting moiety. in this study, the ability of the immunotoxin to induce apoptosis and doubl...