Antimalarial peptides: The long and the short of it

Current Pharmaceutical Design

Volumn 17, Issue 25, 2011, Pages 2719-2731

  Bell, A ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Antimalarial chemotherapy; Antimicrobial peptide; Cyclosporin; Gramicidin; Malaria; Plasmodium; Thiopeptide

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; CECROPIN; CYCLOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; DEFENSIN; GRAMICIDIN; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; THIOSTREPTON;

ARTICLE; DRUG COST; DRUG METABOLISM; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; MALARIA; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM;

EID: 80053486080     PISSN: 13816128     EISSN: 18734286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/138161211797416057     Document Type: Article

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