Takako 🐀 · @otterX
175 followers · 1055 posts · Server mindly.social

How to avoid getting infected with the brain parasite, Toxoplasma g. 🙀

(I didn’t know you can get it from eating undercooked pork/poultry 😱 )

nutritionfacts.org/video/how-t

#govegan #nutritionfacts #parasites #toxoplasma

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Lorraine · @Lorrrraaaaine
412 followers · 1952 posts · Server zeroes.ca

science.org/content/article/re
Oh just a random article that seemed interesting about gondii, a brain parasite for absolutely no particular reason🤷🏻‍♀️

Was reading about Yuri Knorozov a Soviet linguist who deciphered the Mayan script in 1953 who claimed that his cat Biscuits communicated with him telepathically. I’d have definitely been friends with him🖤🖤

#Science #toxoplasma

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PLOS Biology · @PLOSBiology
5140 followers · 1645 posts · Server fediscience.org

screen identifies secreted proteins that help overcome human cell immune defenses; these differ from those needed to infect mouse cells, so the 's wide host range may depend on its large secretome @Moritz_Treeck plos.io/3K34ClR

#plosbiology #parasite #toxoplasma #crispr

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Thiago Carvalho · @cyrilpedia
1720 followers · 8650 posts · Server qoto.org

'Finally, and most recently, we have become interested in understanding the interactions of Toxoplasma with mucus. When you ingest Toxoplasma, it has to get through the , cross the mucous layer, get to the epithelium, cross the epithelium, find its way into the blood, and then into the brain and skeletal muscles. But I never really paused and thought about the impact of mucus on that initial infection until I taught . And so, now I'm interested in looking at the interaction of with goblet cells.'

journals.biologists.com/jcs/ar

#microbiota #immunology #toxoplasma

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The EMBO Journal · @embojournal
452 followers · 207 posts · Server sciencemastodon.com

Both maternal exposure and acute prenatal infection with gondii activate fetal
Anna E Beaudin and colleagues
embopress.org/doi/full/10.1525

#ifnγ #toxoplasma #hematopoietic #stemcells

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Phys.org · @physorg_bot
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Thiago Carvalho · @cyrilpedia
1660 followers · 7803 posts · Server qoto.org

"Our investigation reveals that the fetal HSCs respond to T. gondii infection with virulence-dependent changes in proliferation, self-renewal potential, and lineage output. Furthermore, maternal IFNγ crosses the fetal–maternal interface, where it is perceived by fetal HSCs."

embopress.org/doi/full/10.1525

#immunology #interferon #toxoplasma

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PLOS Biology · @PLOSBiology
4922 followers · 1555 posts · Server fediscience.org

Study shows that a small-molecule inhibitor of A reduces motility & alters disease progression in vivo, suggesting a new approach to treating infections by parasites plos.io/42ySrUG

#plosbiology #apicomplexan #parasite #myosin #toxoplasma

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eLife · @eLife
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Thiago Carvalho · @cyrilpedia
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"Here, we investigated the fetal hematopoietic response to maternal infection with Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii), an intracellular parasite that elicits Type II IFNγ-mediated maternal immunity."

biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

#immunology #toxoplasma #InfetionImmunity #preprint #hostpathogen #parasitology

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jobRxiv · @jobRxiv
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jobRxiv · @jobRxiv
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Katrina Velle · @KatrinaVelle
156 followers · 63 posts · Server mstdn.science

RT alexwaichan: ~1 in 4 people 🌎 have been infected with this pathogen ☣️. Here is a video of it destroying its host cell as it escapes to find a new target. It's not viral, bacterial, or fungal.

Check out this 🧵 to see what we discovered in 🎣 1/12

#toxoplasma #calcium #vesiculartrafficking

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CellBioNews · @cellbionews
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Nerdfallmanagement · @nerdfall
115 followers · 987 posts · Server social.tchncs.de

@Volksverpetzer
Jetzt wäre noch interessant, ob es einen Zusammenhang zwischen und einer vorangegangenen Infektion gibt?
Jaroslav (-Universität ) hat bereits vor Jahren festgestellt, dass insbesondere Männer, die sich mit gondii hatten, und häufiger in verwickelt als Menschen ohne.

#risiko #autounfalle #risikobereiter #infiziert #toxoplasma #prag #Karls #flegr #toxoplasmose #Impfgegnerschaft

Last updated 2 years ago

PLOS Biology · @PLOSBiology
4497 followers · 509 posts · Server fediscience.org

Toxo invasion. @MirkoSinger @MeissnerLab &co identify a protein complex containing a CRMPA/CRMPB heterodimer with multiple transmembrane domains as being essential for host cell invasion by the gondii plos.io/3vJePMM

#plosbiology #toxoplasma #parasite #apicomplexan

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PLOS Biology · @PLOSBiology
4499 followers · 498 posts · Server fediscience.org

Toxo invasion. @MirkoSinger @MeissnerLab &co identify a protein complex containing a CRMPA/CRMPB heterodimer with multiple transmembrane domains as being essential for host cell invasion by the gondii plos.io/3vJePMM

#plosbiology #toxoplasma #parasite #apicomplexan

Last updated 2 years ago

Igor Sovcik · @igisho
100 followers · 198 posts · Server rockosbasilisk.com

Since there is lot of toots. I wonder how many people did heard about ability to change your behaviour? youtube.com/watch?v=rqno7K2zXi

#caturday #cats #cat #catsofmastodon #toxoplasma #science #parasite

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⍼ Martin Hamilton ⍼ · @m
463 followers · 259 posts · Server martinh.net

Your daily reminder of who is really in charge around here... 😺💸

"Students (n = 1495) who tested IgG positive for Toxoplasma Gondii exposure were 1.4× more likely to major in business and 1.7× more likely to have an emphasis in ‘management and entrepreneurship' over other business-related emphases."

doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.0822

#caturday #brainworms #toxoplasmagondii #gondii #toxoplasma

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Journal of Cell Science · @J_Cell_Sci
598 followers · 91 posts · Server mstdn.science

The article by Olivereira Souza et al. showing that IMC10 and LMF1 mediate mitochondrial morphology through mitochondrion–pellicle contact sites in Toxoplasma gondii is : journals.biologists.com/jcs/ar

#openaccess #cellbiology #research #toxoplasma #mitochondria #opendata #openscience

Last updated 2 years ago