Development of an assay for testing the antimicrobial activity of skin peptides against the amphibian chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) using Xenopus laevis

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 506-513

  Gibble, Rebekah E ^a   Rollins Smith, Louise ^b   Baer, Kevin N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT MONROE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibian; Amphibian declines; Antimicrobial peptides; Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis; Bioassay; Chytrid; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

BRADYKININ; NORADRENALIN BITARTRATE; PEPTIDE; PHENTOLAMINE;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; BIOACTIVITY; BIOASSAY; FROG; FUNGUS; GROWTH RESPONSE; INHIBITION; LARVA; PARASITE RESISTANCE; PEPERITE; PEPTIDE; SECRETION; SKIN; TESTING METHOD;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; BIOASSAY; CELL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGUS; FUNGUS CULTURE; GROWTH INHIBITION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HOST RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PROTEIN SECRETION; SKIN INFECTION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; FUNGI; LARVA; NOREPINEPHRINE; SKIN; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMPHIBIA; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; FUNGI; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 50949095014     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: 10902414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2007.10.016     Document Type: Article

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