Title | Clinical Applications of Cytokines and Growth Factors [electronic resource] / edited by John R. Wingard, George D. Demetri |
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Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1999 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5013-6 |
Descript | XII, 407 p. online resource |
I. Biology of Hematopoietic and Lymphopoietic Cytokines -- 1. Cytokines, Growth Factors, and Hematopoiesis -- 2. The Interaction of Cytokines with Stem Cell and Stromal Cell Physiology -- 3. The Interaction of Cytokines with T-cell and Natural Killer Cell Physiology -- 4. Improving on Nature by Re-Engineering Hematopoietic Growth Factors -- II. Management of Neutropenia and Neutropenic Fever -- 5. The Influence of Colony Stimulating Factors on Neutrophil Production, Distribution, and Function -- 6. Evidence-Based Use of Hematopoietic Cytokines in Clinical Oncology -- 7. Economic, Public Health, and Policy Implications of Hematopoietic Growth Factors, High-Dose Chemotherapy, and Stem Cell Rescue -- 8. Outpatient Management of Neutropenic Fever: Antibiotics, Growth Factors or Both? -- 9. The Use of Hematopoietic Growth Factors for Recruitment of Leukocytes for Transfusion -- III. Management of Anemia -- 10. Pathophysiology of the Anemia of Malignancy -- 11. The Use of Recombinant Erythropoietin in the Treatment and Prevention of Cancer and Chemotherapy Related Anemia -- IV Management of Thrombocytopenia -- 12. Regulation of Human Megakaryocytopoiesis -- 13. The Effects of Multilineage Cytokines on Platelet Recovery -- 14. Clinical Studies of Thrombopoietin -- V. The Role of Cytokines to Enhance Cancer Chemotherapy -- 15. Dose Intensification in Solid Tumor Chemotherapy -- 16. Conventional and High Dose Chemotherapy for Lymphomas -- 17. Hematopoietic Growth Factors in Acute Leukemia -- VI. Management of Marrow Failure States -- 18. Cytokines for the Treatment of Myelodysplastic Syndromes and Other Bone Marrow Failure States -- VII The Use of Cytokines in Blood and Marrow Transplantation -- 19. Stem Cell Collection for Hematopoietic Transplantation: Stem Cell Sources, Mobilization Strategies, and Factors that Influence Yield -- 20. Mechanisms of Growth Factor Mobilization of Hematopoietic Progenitors -- 21. The Use of Cytokines to Enhance Collection of Stem Cells for Marrow and Blood Transplantation -- 22. The Use of Cytokines During Blood and Marrow Transplantation