The associated neutropenia can be partially corrected by treatment with granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) or granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF).
Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) have been used to reduce the frequency and duration of clozapine-associated neutropenia.
Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) are used to ameliorate cancer therapy-induced neutropenia and mucositis.
A prospective randomized phase II trial of GM-CSF priming to prevent topotecan-induced neutropenia in chemotherapy-naive patients with malignant melanoma or renal cell carcinoma.
GM-CSF given subcutaneously at a dose of 5 micrograms/kg daily for ten days was well tolerated, reversed neutropenia rapidly and reduced the number of secondary infections in patients with leishmaniasis.
Recent reports suggest that a beneficial effect may be observed in the administration of hematopoietic growth factors (G-CSF, GM-CSF) for patients with DC and neutropenia.
Applying one assay we could demonstrate that: 1) peripheral blood monocytes from 5 patients with SCN are able to express G-CSF and GM-CSF messenger RNA, suggesting that defective production of these factors is not responsible for the neutropenia in this condition; 2) messenger RNA levels from 5 SCN patients were on average higher than the levels determined for three healthy volunteers; 3) 7 of 9 of the examined myeloid cell lines express GM-CSF and all of them G-CSF mRNA.
Granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) (G-CSF), cyclosporine, methylprednisolone and oral methotrexate failed to correct the neutropenia.