Lower performance of Toxoplasma-infected, Rh-negative subjects in the weight holding and hand-grip tests
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F18%3A10392408" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/18:10392408 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0200346" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0200346</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0200346" target="_blank" >10.1371/journal.pone.0200346</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Lower performance of Toxoplasma-infected, Rh-negative subjects in the weight holding and hand-grip tests
Original language description
Background Toxoplasma, a protozoan parasite of cats, infects many species of intermediate and paratenic hosts, including about one-third of humans worldwide. After a short phase of acute infection, the tissue cysts containing slowly dividing bradyzoites are formed in various organs and toxoplasmosis proceeds spontaneously in its latent form. In immunocompetent subjects, latent toxoplasmosis was considered asymptomatic. However, dozens of studies performed on animals and humans in the past twenty years have shown that it is accompanied by a broad spectrum of specific behavioural, physiological and even morphological changes. In human hosts, the changes often go in the opposite direction in men and women, and are mostly weaker or non-existent in Rh-positive subjects. Methods Here, we searched for the indices of lower endurance of the infected subjects by examining the performance of nearly five hundred university students tested for toxoplasmosis and Rh phenotype in two tests, a weight holding test and a grip test. Results The results confirmed the existence of a negative association of latent toxoplasmosis with the performance of students, especially Rh-negative men, in these tests. Surprisingly, but in an accordance with some already published data, Toxoplasma-infected, Rh-positive subjects expressed a higher, rather than lower, performance in our endurance tests. Discussion Therefore, the results only partly support the hypothesis for the lower endurance of Toxoplasma infected subjects as the performance of Rh-positive subjects (representing majority of population) correlated positively with the Toxoplasma infection.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10602 - Biology (theoretical, mathematical, thermal, cryobiology, biological rhythm), Evolutionary biology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA16-20958S" target="_blank" >GA16-20958S: The role of raising cats and dogs and of their infections in development of clinical and subclinical forms of depression, OCD, phobias and psychoses</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
PLoS One
ISSN
1932-6203
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
13
Issue of the periodical within the volume
7
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
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UT code for WoS article
000438457400048
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85049772787