Toxoplasma gondii infection, from predation to schizophrenia: Can animal behaviour help us understand human behaviour?

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 216, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 99-112

  Webster, Joanne P ^a   Kaushik, Maya ^a   Bristow, Greg C ^b   McConkey, Glenn A ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3Rs; Behaviour; By product; Intermediate host; Manipulation; Mouse; Pathology; Rat; Schizophrenia; Secondary host; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL MODEL; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; MOUSE; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, ANIMAL; RATS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; PROTOZOA; RATTUS; RODENTIA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 84871183259     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.074716     Document Type: Review

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