ANTI-infective therapeutics from the lepidopteran model host Galleria mellonella

Current Pharmaceutical Design

Volumn 17, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 1240-1245

  Vilcinskas, Andreas ^a,b  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND APPLIED ECOLOGY IME   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anti infectives; Antibiotics; Antimicrobial peptides; Galleria mellonella; Insect biotechnology; Insects

Indexed keywords

CECROPIN; GALIOMICIN; GLOVERIN; INSECT METALLOPROTEINASE INHIBITOR; LEBOCIN; LYSOZYME; MORICIN; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; SPODOPTERICIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; DRUG DESIGN; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; GALLERIA MELLONELLA; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HOST SELECTION; HUMAN; LEPIDOPTERA; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 79958146342     PISSN: 13816128     EISSN: 18734286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/138161211795703799     Document Type: Article

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