Quorum sensing inhibition by phenothiazines and related compounds

Letters in Drug Design and Discovery

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 133-137

  Varga, Zoltán Gábor ^a   Szabó, Mira Ágnes ^a   Schelz, Zsuzsanna ^a   Szegedi, Erno ^b   Amaral, Leonard ^c   Molnár, József ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^b Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation   (Hungary)

^c INSTITUTO DE HIGIENE E MEDICINA TROPICAL   (Portugal)

Author keywords

5 Fluorouracil; Amitriptyline; Homoserine lactone complexes; Imipramine; Promethazine; Quorum quenching

Indexed keywords

ACRIDINE ORANGE; AMITRIPTYLINE; CHLORPROTHIXENE; DESIPRAMINE; DIETHAZINE; FLUOROURACIL; IMIPRAMINE; PHENOTHIAZINE; PROMAZINE; PROMETHAZINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHROMOBACTERIUM VIOLACEUM; ELECTRON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUORUM SENSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VIRULENCE;

EID: 79952430932     PISSN: 15701808     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157018011794183789     Document Type: Article

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