Behavioral biology of Toxoplasma gondii infection

The parasite changes the behavior of its intermediate hosts by reducing their innate fear to cat odors and thereby plausibly increasing the probability that ...

Behavioral biology of Toxoplasma gondii infection - PubMed

Toxoplasma gondii is a protozoan parasite with a complex life cycle and a cosmopolitan host range. The asexual part of its life cycle can be ...

Toxoplasma gondii infection and behaviour - PubMed Central

The innate aversion to cat odour appears to become a potentially fatal feline attraction in T. gondii-infected rats and mice (Berdoy et al., 2000; Vyas et al., ...

(PDF) Behavioral biology of Toxoplasma gondii infection

The parasite produces brain cysts during the latent phase of its infection, in parallel to causing a loss of innate aversion in the rat host towards cat odors.

Behavioral biology of Toxoplasma gondii infection - Semantic Scholar

A short description of parasitic behavioral manipulation in laboratory rodents infected with T. gondii, along with a bird's eye view of ...

Effects of T. gondii On Behavior and Psychiatric Symptoms

gondii with mental retardation. Piekarski and Witting reported that T. gondii caused impaired learning in mice and rats and impaired memory in mice. Based on ...

Behavioral Manipulation by Toxoplasma gondii: Does Brain ...

Highlights · Loss of fear in infected rodents after Toxoplasma gondii infection is one of the most studied examples of parasitic manipulation of host behavior.

Parasitic infection increases risk-taking in a social, intermediate host ...

Toxoplasma gondii is a protozoan parasite capable of infecting any warm-blooded species and can increase risk-taking in intermediate hosts.

Behavioral and Neuropathological Changes After Toxoplasma ...

gondii lowers general anxiety in infected mice and that the lack of aversion of mice infected with T. gondii extends to predators other than felids (Boillat et ...

The molecular biology and immune control of chronic Toxoplasma ...

(A) In acute infection, T. gondii is frequently observed in immune cells, including monocytes and dendritic cells, with hypermigratory behavior.

Behavioral biology of Toxoplasma gondii infection - EBSCOhost

Behavioral biology of Toxoplasma gondii infection. Wen Han Tong1, Chris Pavey2, Ryan O'Handley3 and Ajai Vyas1*. Abstract. Toxoplasma gondii is a protozoan ...

Toxoplasmosis and behavioural changes - ScienceDirect.com

gondii infection is associated with predatory risk behaviours such as an attraction of infected mice to cat urine. Infection with the parasite is associated ...

Behavioral changes induced by Toxoplasma infection of rodents are ...

The protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii blocks the innate aversion of rats for cat urine, instead producing an attraction to the pheromone; ...

Behavioral Manipulation by Toxoplasma gondii: Does Brain ...

Loss of fear in infected rodents after Toxoplasma gondii infection is one of the most studied examples of parasitic manipulation of host behavior. Paracrine ...

Effect of Toxoplasma gondii on Animal Behavior: Playing Cat and ...

A more likely explanation was that T. gondii–infected mice interact with their environment and novel stimulation arising from it in a different way than ...

Toxoplasma gondii infection, from predation to schizophrenia

Whereas some of the behavioural changes associated with infection are quite general, such as depressed feeding or general malaise/'sickness', ...

Epigenetic Manipulation of Psychiatric Behavioral Disorders ...

Consistent with this, T. gondii infection could increase the distribution dispersion of a key synthetase of GABA, glutamate decarboxylase 67 ( ...

Toxoplasma gondii: Current Biology - Cell Press

Currently, no definitive mechanism has been established, though the identification of behavioral changes in mice infected with a non-persistent ...

Behavioral biology of Toxoplasma gondii infection

Toxoplasma gondii is a protozoan parasite with a complex life cycle and a cosmopolitan host range. The asexual part of its life cycle can be perpetually ...

Behavioral alterations in long-term Toxoplasma gondii infection of ...

In chronically infected immunocompetent individuals, this parasite forms tissue cysts mainly in the brain. In addition, T. gondii infection has ...