Cationic polysaccharides as antiprion agents

Journal of Medicinal Chemistry

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1414-1420

  Yudovin Farber, Ira ^a   Azzam, Tony ^a   Metzer, Esther ^b   Taraboulos, Albert ^b   Domb, Abraham J ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINE; ANTIPRION AGENT; ARABINOGALACTAN; DEXTRAN; MACROGOL; METHOXYPOLYETHYLENE GLYCOL; OLEIC ACID; PENTOSAN POLYSULFATE; POLYCATION; POLYSACCHARIDE; PRION PROTEIN; PULLULAN; SPERMIDINE DERIVATIVE; SPERMINE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; DRUG CONJUGATION; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG STRUCTURE; MOUSE; NEUROBLASTOMA CELL; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRION DISEASE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CATIONS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DEXTRANS; ENDOPEPTIDASE K; GALACTANS; GLUCANS; MICE; PENTOSAN SULFURIC POLYESTER; POLYAMINES; POLYSACCHARIDES; PRPSC PROTEINS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 14944344463     PISSN: 00222623     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jm049378o     Document Type: Article

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