Cat Got Your Brain | VICE

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  • Cat Got Your Brain | VICE
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    Est ce que votre chat vous a refilé des parasites ?

    The paper, published by a team led by Jonas Fuks of the Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge in Stockholm, suggests that toxoplasma can hijack our dendritic cells, which act as the “gatekeepers” of our immune system. According to the authors, toxoplasma—a single-celled, motile organism which would otherwise move around semi-randomly—seems to ride on the back of dendritic cells to take a quick ride straight to the brain. If that sounds familiar, it’s because toxoplasma apparently works much like a Trojan horse.

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