Naming guidelines for colony stimulating factors:
-stim
common stem for colony stimulating factors
Examples: pegacaristim, romiplostim
-grastim
granulocyte colony stimulating factors (G-CSF)
Examples: filgrastim, lenograstim, pegfilgrastim, pegnartograstim
-gramostim
granulocyte macrophage colony stimulating factors (GM-CSF)
Examples: molgramostim, regramostim, sargramostim
-mostim
macrophage colony stimulating factors (M-CSF)
Examples: cilmostim, lanimostim
-plestim
interleukin-3 (IL-3) factors classified as pleiotropic colony stimulating factors
Examples: daniplestim, muplestim
-distim
conjugates of two different types of colony stimulating factors
Examples: leridistim, milodistim
-cestim
stem cell stimulating factors
Examples: ancestim, garnocestim
