Toxoplasma gondi
Shear Forces Enhance Toxoplasma gondii Tachyzoite Motility on Vascular Endothelium
... ABSTRACT Toxoplasma gondii is a highly successful parasite that infects approximately one-third of the human population and can cause fatal disease in immunocompromised ...
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Investigation of infectivity of neonates and adults from different rat strains to toxoplasma gondii prugniaud shows both variation which correlates with iNOS and Arginase 1 activity and increased susceptibility of neonates to infection
... Keywords: Toxoplasma gondii Prugniaud strain; cyst; neonate rats; host resistance; iNOS;... Toxoplasma gondii is an obligatory intracellular apicomplexan parasite that infects.[r] ...
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Seroepidemiology of Toxoplasma gondii infection in patients with liver disease in eastern China
... Toxoplasmosis is a parasitic disease caused by infection with the intracellular apicomplexan protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii. This parasite has a worldwide distribution and is able to infect any warm-blooded ...
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Toxoplasma gondii Requires Glycogen Phosphorylase for Balancing Amylopectin Storage and for Efficient Production of Brain Cysts
... In Toxoplasma gondii, amylopectin storage is known to increase in bradyzoites, the latent-infection life cycle stage, as well as in sporozoites, macrogame- tocytes, and oocysts (sexual reproductive stages found in ...
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Role of Toxoplasma gondii Chloroquine Resistance Transporter in Bradyzoite Viability and Digestive Vacuole Maintenance
... ABSTRACT Toxoplasma gondii is a ubiquitous pathogen that can cause encephalitis, congenital defects, and ocular disease. T. gondii has also been implicated as a risk factor for mental illness in humans. The ...
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Toxoplasma gondii infection in patients with schizophrenia
... 10 Toxoplasma gondii genome is known to contain two aromatic amino acid hydroxylases that potentially could directly affect dopamine and/or sero- tonin ...for Toxoplasma gondii induced behavioral changes ...
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Analysis Concentration of Toxoplasma gondii on Anti Toxoplasma IgG IgM Antibody Levels, and the Outcomes of Pregnancy in Mice Balb/c
... Introduction: Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular protozoan para- site that can infect any warm blood vertebrae, and if first trimester pregnant woman infected, it may cause ...the Toxoplasma ...
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Toxoplasma gondii Arginine Methyltransferase 1 (PRMT1) Is Necessary for Centrosome Dynamics during Tachyzoite Cell Division
... ABSTRACT The arginine methyltransferase family (PRMT) has been implicated in a variety of cellular processes, including sig- nal transduction, epigenetic regulation, and DNA repair pathways. PRMT1 is thought to be ...
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Essential Role of mGBP7 for Survival of Toxoplasma gondii Infection
... parasite Toxoplasma gondii, likely by accumulating at the parasitophorous vacuole membrane (PVM) of the parasite and destabilizing the vacuolar integrity (3, 4, 14, ...
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Toxoplasma gondii Superinfection and Virulence during Secondary Infection Correlate with the Exact ROP5/ROP18 Allelic Combination
... parasite Toxoplasma gondii infects a wide variety of vertebrate species ...of Toxoplasma strains in South America, where most isolates are IRG resistant, compared to North America, where most strains are ...
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Analysis of feral cats role in dissemination of Toxoplasma gondii infection in rural area, Golestan province, North-East of Iran
... Background and aims: Cats carry a lot of zoonotic parasites such as Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) which causes toxoplasmosis in warm-blooded animals. Toxoplasmosis includes wide range of symptoms in its ...
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New Method for the Orthogonal Labeling and Purification of Toxoplasma gondii Proteins While Inside the Host Cell
... New Method for the Orthogonal Labeling and Purification of Toxoplasma gondii Proteins While Inside the Host Cell New Method for the Orthogonal Labeling and Purification of Toxoplasma gondii Proteins W[.] ...
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CD4 T Lymphocytes Count in HIV Toxoplasma gondii Co Infected Pregnant Women Undergoing a Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission Program
... The prevalence of anti- Toxoplasma gondii antibodies in HIV infected women was 5.36% for IgM (3/56), 25% for IgG (14/56) and 3.57% for both IgM and IgG (2/56). Patients who had recent infection with T. gondii ...
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Genetic Manipulation of the Toxoplasma gondii Genome by Fosmid Recombineering
... We also wanted to optimize a liquid recombineering protocol in deep 96-well plates. This protocol may be faster, as it avoids plates and colony picking, and the recombineering procedure can be performed in a ...
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The Toxoplasma gondii Rhoptry Kinome Is Essential for Chronic Infection
... the Toxoplasma gondii type II Prugniaud (Pru) background (11), and knockout genotypes were validated by PCR to measure targeted deletion of the ROPK gene locus and the correct integration of the HXGPRT selectable ...
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The prevalence of Neospora caninum and co infection with Toxoplasma gondii by PCR analysis in naturally occurring mammal populations
... not always test positive and a minimum of 3 PCR reactions were carried out on separate occasions. Examination of field samples demonstrated that, despite repeated testing, the single-round PCR underestimated the number of ...
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Cellular defenses against Toxoplasma gondii in newborns
... to Toxoplasma infection, we compared: the interaction of Toxoplasma with newborns' mononuclear phagocytes (blood monocytes and two types of newborn M phi, those derived from blood monocytes or from ...
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The Histone Code of Toxoplasma gondii Comprises Conserved and Unique Posttranslational Modifications
... of Toxoplasma gondii histone PTM, we enriched histones using stan- dard acid extraction protocols and analyzed them with several complementary middle-down and bottom-up proteomic ap- proaches with the ...
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A Noncanonical Autophagy Pathway Restricts Toxoplasma gondii Growth in a Strain Specific Manner in IFN γ Activated Human Cells
... A Noncanonical Autophagy Pathway Restricts Toxoplasma gondii Growth in a Strain Specific Manner in IFN γ Activated Human Cells A Noncanonical Autophagy Pathway Restricts Toxoplasma gondii Growth in a[.] ...
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Novel Approaches Reveal that Toxoplasma gondii Bradyzoites within Tissue Cysts Are Dynamic and Replicating Entities In Vivo
... ABSTRACT Despite their critical role in chronic toxoplasmosis, the biology of Toxoplasma gondii bradyzoites is poorly under- stood. In an attempt to address this gap, we optimized approaches to purify tissue cysts ...
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