Abstract:Congenital toxoplasmosis constitutes a major cause of pre- and post-natal complications. Fetal infection with Toxoplasma gondii influences development and can lead to microcephaly, encephalitis, and neurological abnormalities. Few studies have attempted to explain the impact of T. gondii infection on the physiology of mature nerve cells, and no systematic study concerning the effect of infection of neural progenitor cells by T. gondii in the biology of these progenitors is available. We infected cortical inter… Show more
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