Toxoplasma gondii infections alter GABAergic synapses and signaling in the central nervous system

mBio

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Brooks, Justin M ^a   Carrillo, Gabriela L ^b   Su, Jianmin ^b   Lindsay, David S ^c   Fox, Michael A ^b,c   Blader, Ira J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA TECH CARILION SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 67; PENTETRAZOLE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; MOUSE; NEUROPIL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEIZURE SUSCEPTIBILITY; SYNAPSE; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TOXOPLASMOSIS; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CELL MOTION; CEREBRAL TOXOPLASMOSIS; CHEMISTRY; DISEASE MODEL; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEIZURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOXOPLASMA;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL MOVEMENT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GABAERGIC NEURONS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; HUMANS; MICE; NEURONS; NEUROPIL; SEIZURES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSES; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, CEREBRAL;

EID: 84952802611     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.01428-15     Document Type: Article

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