The distribution of Toxoplasma gondii cysts in the brain of a mouse with latent toxoplasmosis: Implications for the behavioral manipulation hypothesis

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Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Berenreiterová, Miroslava ^a   Flegr, Jaroslav ^a   Kuběna, Aleš A ^a   Němec, Pavel ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYST (RESTING STAGE); DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FRONTAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOUSE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; ORBITAL CORTEX; PARASITE LOAD; PARASITE LOCALIZATION; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PONTINE NUCLEUS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TROPISM; VISUAL CORTEX; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; CAT; CELL COUNT; CELL SIZE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CYTOLOGY; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TOXOPLASMA;

DOPAMINE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; CATS; CELL COUNT; CELL SIZE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DOPAMINE; MALE; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TROPISM;

EID: 83355172903     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028925     Document Type: Article

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