Sentences with phrase «gondii cysts»

For example, it has been posited that T. gondii cysts might actively modulate dopamine production [26], [27], [28], [29], or directly interrupt neuronal activity [30], [31].

What is amazing is that the presence of T. gondii cysts in particular areas of the mouse brain drastically alters their behaviour.

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This is a scanning electron micrograph of the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii, tissue cyst in brain of an infected mouse.

When T. gondii infects an intermediate host such as rodents or humans, it infiltrates the central nervous system and forms slow - growing cysts inside neurons where it can persist for the life of the host [4].

This suggests that T. gondii - mediated interruption of mouse innate aversion toward cat urine may occur during early acute infection in a permanent manner, not requiring persistence of parasite cysts or continuing brain inflammation.

Cats become infected when they consume an intermediate host infected with T. gondii (i.e., containing tissue cysts).