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