Effects of atrazine, agricultural runoff, and selected effluents on antimicrobial activity of skin peptides in Xenopus laevis

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 593-599

  Gibble, R E ^a   Baer, K N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT MONROE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibian; Antimicrobial peptides; Atrazine; Chytrid fungus; Effluents; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

ATRAZINE; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ATRAZINE; BIOACTIVITY; ECOTOXICOLOGY; EFFLUENT; FROG; FUNGUS; PEPTIDE; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PROTEIN; SECRETION;

AGRICULTURAL WASTE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFLUENT; EMBRYO; FUNGUS IMMUNITY; IN VITRO STUDY; INFECTION PREVENTION; LANDFILL; LARVAL STAGE; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT; SKIN SECRETION; WASTE WATER; WATER QUALITY; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ATRAZINE; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; FRESH WATER; PEPTIDES; SKIN; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

AMPHIBIA; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; FUNGI; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 79955524720     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: 10902414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2010.11.009     Document Type: Article

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