Submicellar complexes may initiate the fungicidal effects of cationic amphiphilic compounds on Candida albicans

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 544-550

  Ahlstrom B ^a   Chelminska Bertilsson, M ^a   Thompson, R A ^b   Edebo, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b ASTRAZENECA R AND D   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; CETRIMIDE; DODECYLTRIMETHYLAMMONIUM BROMIDE; PROPIDIUM IODIDE; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; TETRADECANOYLCHOLINE BROMIDE; TETRADECYLBETAINIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING KINETICS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; DRUG BINDING; DRUG MECHANISM; FUNGICIDAL ACTIVITY; MEMBRANE DAMAGE; MICELLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0031035083     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.41.3.544     Document Type: Article

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