Pharmaceutical and medicinal preparations for the treatment of HIV, inflammation, arthritis, asthma, cancer, cell transplants and cell transplant rejection, angiogenesis, multiple sclerosis, bacterial infection, peripheral blood stem cell mobilization, cardiovascular diseases, lymphoma, tissue regeneration, tissue repair, leukemia, drug-induced anemia, retrovirus, hematopoietic deficit resulting from chemotherapy or radiation therapy, elevation of white blood cells, and opthalmic diseases, including age related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy