The zebrafish embryo as a tool for screening and characterizing pleurocidin host-defense peptides as anti-cancer agents

DMM Disease Models and Mechanisms

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 622-633

  Morash, Michael G ^a   Douglas, Susan E ^a   Robotham, Anna ^a   Ridley, Christina M ^a   Gallant, Jeffrey W ^a   Soanes, Kelly H ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOTOXIC AGENT; NRC 01; NRC 02; NRC 03; NRC 03B; NRC 03D; NRC 04; NRC 05; NRC 06; NRC 07; NRC 08; NRC 09; NRC 10; NRC 11; NRC 12; NRC 123; NRC 124; NRC 125; NRC 126; NRC 127; NRC 128; NRC 13; NRC 14; NRC 15; NRC 16; NRC 17; NRC 18; NRC 19; NRC 20; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL ASSAY; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL REGENERATION; CELL STRAIN HL 60; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG SCREENING; DRUG SPECIFICITY; EMBRYO; EMBRYOTOXICITY; EPITHELIUM; ERYTHROCYTE; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LD 50; MEMBRANE DAMAGE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TARGET CELL DESTRUCTION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TUMOR CELL DESTRUCTION; ZEBRA FISH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CELL DEATH; DNA FRAGMENTATION; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FISH PROTEINS; HL-60 CELLS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; ZEBRAFISH;

DANIO RERIO;

EID: 80052294824     PISSN: 17548403     EISSN: 17548411     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dmm.007310     Document Type: Article

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