Effect of the antimicrobial peptide gomesin against different life stages of Plasmodium spp.

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 346-353

  Moreira, Cristina K ^a   Rodrigues, Flávia G ^b   Ghosh, Anil ^a   Varotti, Fernando de P ^b   Miranda, Antonio ^c   Daffre, Sirlei ^d   Jacobs Lorena, Marcelo ^a   Moreira, Luciano A ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

American Type Culture Collection; An. stephensi; Anopheles stephensi; Antimicrobial peptide; ATCC; Exflagellation; FIOCRUZ; Funda o Oswaldo Cruz; GFP; Gomesin; green fluorescent protein; Malaria; Malaria Research and Reference Reagent Resource Center; Mosquito; MR4; Oocyst; Ookinete; P. berghei; P. falciparum; Plasmodium berghei; Plasmodium falciparum; Roswell Park Memorial Institute medium; RPMI 1640; t Boc; tert butyloxycarbonyl

Indexed keywords

GOMESIN; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANOPHELES STEPHENSI; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAMETOCYTE; GROWTH INHIBITION; LIFE CYCLE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIDER;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; ANTIMALARIALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; ARTEMISININS; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; GERM CELLS; HUMANS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MALE; MICE; OOCYSTS; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SESQUITERPENES;

ACANTHOSCURRIA GOMESIANA; ANOPHELES STEPHENSI; ARANEAE; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 34249788966     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2007.01.022     Document Type: Article

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