Design and activity of antimicrobial peptides against sporogonic-stage parasites causing murine malarias

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 2104-2110

  Arrighi, Romanico B G ^a   Nakamura, Chikashi ^a   Miyake, Jun ^a   Hurd, Hilary ^a   Burgess, J Grant ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; PEPTIDE VIDA1; PEPTIDE VIDA2; PEPTIDE VIDA3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ALPHA DEFENSIN; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG SYNTHESIS; HOST RESISTANCE; MALARIA; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM YOELII; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SPOROGENESIS; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; OOCYST; SPOROZOITE;

ALPHA-DEFENSINS; ANIMAL; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTIMALARIALS; DRUG DESIGN; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; OOCYSTS; PEPTIDES; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; SPOROZOITES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; ANIMALS;

EID: 0035984779     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.46.7.2104-2110.2002     Document Type: Article

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