How and why Toxoplasma makes us crazy
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F13%3A10195454" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/13:10195454 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2013.01.007" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2013.01.007</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2013.01.007" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.pt.2013.01.007</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
How and why Toxoplasma makes us crazy
Original language description
For a long time, a latent toxoplasmosis, the lifelong presence of dormant stages of Toxoplasma in various tissues, including the brain, was considered harmless for immunocompetent persons. Within the past 10 years, however, many independent studies haveshown that this parasitic disease, with a worldwide prevalence of about 30%, could be indirectly responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths due to its effects on the rate of traffic and workplace accidents, and also suicides. Moreover, latent toxoplasmosis is probably one of the most important risk factors for schizophrenia. At least some of these effects, possibly mediated by increased dopamine and decreased tryptophan, are products of manipulation activity by Toxoplasma aiming to increase the probability of transmission from intermediate to definitive host through predation.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
FN - Epidemiology, infection diseases and clinical immunology
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GAP303%2F11%2F1398" target="_blank" >GAP303/11/1398: Startle reaction and prepulse inhibition in human with latent toxoplasmosis</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2013
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Trends in Parasitology
ISSN
1471-4922
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
29
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
8
Pages from-to
156-163
UT code for WoS article
000317711800003
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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