Infection of male rats with Toxoplasma gondii results in enhanced delay aversion and neural changes in the nucleus accumbens core

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 282, Issue 1808, 2015, Pages

  Tan, Donna ^a   Soh, Linda Jing Ting ^a   Lim, Lee Wei ^a   Daniel, Tan Chia Wei ^b   Zhang, Xiaodong ^b,c,d   Vyas, Ajai ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioural manipulation; Brain; Delay discounting; Dopamine; Monoamines; Parasites

Indexed keywords

AVOIDANCE REACTION; BRAIN; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FELID; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; ODOR; PARASITIC DISEASE; PROTOZOAN; RODENT;

PROTOZOA; RATTUS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

DOPAMINE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL TOXOPLASMOSIS; DECISION MAKING; FEAR; MALE; METABOLISM; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; TOXOPLASMA; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DOPAMINE; FEAR; MALE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

EID: 84929998120     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.0042     Document Type: Article

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