Using an engineered form of Toxoplasma gondii - a common parasite found in cat poo, scientists tried to deliver proteins to the brain in mice. Earlier, it was not easy to deliver targeted ...
As for outdoor cats, they shed the parasite for only three weeks of their ... causing lesions in the brain tissue and potentially death. Since the late 90s, scientists have tracked toxoplasmosis ...
In non-cats, Toxo hangs out in the eyes and the ... That was the suggestion of an influential 2006 paper titled "Can the Common Brain Parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, Influence Human Culture?" ...
莉拉赫·希纳(LilachSheiner)在格拉斯哥大学有一间专门研究弓形虫(Toxoplasma gondii)的实验室。作为一名寄生虫学家,希纳的主要工作是寻找对付 ...
Toxoplasma seemed to already possess most of the qualities needed for brain-targeting therapeutics: It could evade the host ...
But unlike other CNS pathogens, this lifelong persistent brain infection does not ... it is possible that these wild cats may be spreading the parasite to bighorn sheep. However, domestic house ...
In non-cats, Toxo hangs out in the eyes and the ... That was the suggestion of an influential 2006 paper titled "Can the Common Brain Parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, Influence Human Culture?" ...
Though rare, dogs and cats are susceptible to infection ... In humans, the parasite can lead to swelling of the brain, eyes, and subsequent blindness, according to the journal Emerging Infectious ...
such as parasitic wasps. They do each of these things on the basis of sophisticated processing of sound, smell, touch and vision, organised and run by a brain composed of about 140,000 neurons ...