Parasite, zombie, leech—these words are often used to describe people in unkind ways. Many of us recoil when ticks, tapeworms ...

Introduction: Toxoplasmosis is caused by the opportunistic, cosmopolitan protozoan Toxoplasma gondii is one of the most common parasitoses in the world. This parasite can pose a threat to people with ...

It has been hard to find fungi that normally reside in the mouse gut. The identification of one such fungus deepens our understanding of how resident fungi drive immune responses in their natural ...

Citation: Toxoplasma gondii parasite uses unconventional method to make proteins for evasion of drug treatment, research reveals (2024, December 10) retrieved 5 January 2025 from https://phys.org ...

Toxoplasma cysts have been linked to behavior changes and neurological disorders like schizophrenia. They can also reactivate when the immune system is weakened, causing life-threatening organ damage.

gondii from the cortical capillaries to the brain parenchyma (Table 1). Table 1. T. gondii infection regulates the secretion of chemokines, the expression of cell adhesion molecules, extracellular ...

A study sheds new light on how Toxoplasma gondii parasites make the proteins they need to enter a dormant stage that allows them to escape drug treatment. A study by Indiana University School of ...

gondii ER efficiently takes up Ca 2+ that enters the cytosol from the extracellular milieu. Filling of acidic stores in T. gondii appears to be dependent on the filling of the ER The mitochondrion of ...