Antimalarial effects of vinyl sulfone cysteine proteinase inhibitors

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1600-1603

  Rosenthal, Philip J ^a   Olson, Jed E ^a   Lee, Garson K ^a   Palmer, James T ^b   Klaus, Jeffrey L ^b   Rasnick, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Arris Pharmaceuticals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; BACTERIAL ENZYME; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; FALCIPAIN; HEMOGLOBIN HYDROXYLASE; N [N (3 CARBOXYOXIRANE 2 CARBONYL)LEUCYL]AGMATINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIMALARIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; ENZYME RELEASE; HEMOGLOBIN ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INHIBITION KINETICS; MALARIA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINASE INHIBITION;

EID: 0030011095     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.40.7.1600     Document Type: Article

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