The role of dopamine in Toxoplasma-induced behavioural alterations in mice: An ethological and ethopharmacological study

Parasitology

Volumn 133, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 525-535

  Skallova A ^a   Kodym, P ^b   Frynta, D ^a   Flegr, J ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Dopamine; Exploration; GBR 12909; Holeboard; Parasite

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITOR; VANOXERINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; DRUG EFFECT; ETHOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL MOUSE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOUSE; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; BREEDING; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITORS; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PIPERAZINES; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

PROTOZOA; RODENTIA; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 33750315422     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182006000886     Document Type: Article

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