Antimicrobial activities of squalamine mimics

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1433-1438

  Kikuchi, Ken ^a,c   Bernard, Edward M ^a   Sadownik, Andrzej ^b   Regen, Steven L ^b   Armstrong, Donald ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; SM 7; SQUALENE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SHEEP; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0030872943     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.41.7.1433     Document Type: Article

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