Growth factor



Growth factor is any of about twenty small proteins that attach to specific
receptors on the surface of stem cells in bone marrow and promote
differentiation and maturation of these cells into morphotic constituents of
blood.

The most important growth factors are :

   * granuclocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF)
   * granuclocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF)
   * erythropoietin (EPO)

For the last two decades growth factors have been increasingly used in
treatment of hematologic and oncologic diseases like :

   * granulocytopenia
   * Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS)
   * leukemias
   * aplastic anaemia
   * bone marrow transplatation

Cancer - List of Famous Cancer Patients - Medical Topics - Medical_Terms - Medicine - Alternative Therapies -