Full Access
Current Status of Research on Toxoplasma gondii: Report from the Sixth International Workshops on Opportunistic Protists.
DAVID S. LINDSAY,
VERN B. CARRUTHERS,
DAVID S. LINDSAY
Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205
Search for more papers by this authorVERN B. CARRUTHERS
Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205
Search for more papers by this authorDAVID S. LINDSAY,
VERN B. CARRUTHERS,
DAVID S. LINDSAY
Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205
Search for more papers by this authorVERN B. CARRUTHERS
Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205
Search for more papers by this authorFirst published: 14 May 2007
References
- 1 Chao, C.C., Hu, S., Gekker, G., Novick, Jr. W.J., Remington, J.S. & Peterson, P.K. 1993. Effects of cytokines on multiplication of Toxoplasma gondii in microglial cells. J. Immunol., 150: 3404–3410.
- 2 Chao, C.C., Gekker, G. S., Hu, S., & Peterson, P.K. 1994. Human microglia cell defense against Toxoplasma gondii. The role of cytokines. J. Immunol., 152: 1246–1252.
- 3 Deckert-Schluter, M., Albrecht, S., Hof, H., Wiestler, O.D., and Schluter, D. 1995. Dynamics of the intracerebral and splenic cytokine mRNA production in Toxoplasma gondii-resistant and - susceptible congenital strains of mice. Immunology, 85: 408–418.
- 4 Ferguson, D.J.P., Hutchison, W.M., & Peterson, E. 1989. Tissue cyst rupture in mice chronically infected with Toxoplasma gondii. An immunocytoshemical and ultrastructural study. Parasitol. Res., 75: 599–603.
- 5 Frenkel, J.K. 1994. Pathophysiology of toxoplasmosis. Parasitol. Today, 10: 273–278.
- 6 Gazzinelli, R.T., Eltoum, I., Wynn, T.A. & Sher, A. 1993. Acute cerebral toxoplasmosis is induced by in vivo neutralization of TNFα and correlates with the down regulated expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase and other markers of macrophage activation. J. Immunol., 151: 3572–3681.
- 7 Halonen, S.K., Chiu, F.C, & Weiss, L.M. 1998. Effect of cytokines on growth of Toxoplasma gondii in murine astrocytes. Infect. Immun., 66: 4989–4993.
- 8 Hunter, C.A., Roberts, C.W., Murray, M. & Alexander, J. 1992. Kinetics of cytokine mRNA production in the brains of mice with progressive toxoplasmic encephalitis. Eur. J. Immunol., 22: 2317–2322.
- 9 Hunter, C. A., Litton, M.J., Remington, J.S., & Abrams, J.S. 1994. Immunocytochemical detection of cytokines in the lymph nodes and brains of mice resistant or susceptible to Toxoplasmic encephalitis. J Infect. Dis., 170: 939–945.
- 10 Hunter, C.A. & Remington, J.S. 1994. Immunopathogenesis of toxoplasmic encephalitis. J. Infect. Dis., 170: 1057–67.
- 11 Luft, B.J., and Remington, J.S. 1994. Toxoplasmic encephalitis in AIDS. Clin. Infect. Dis., 15: 11–12.
- 12 MacMicking, J.D., Nathan, C., Horn, G., Chartrain, N., Fletcher, D.S., Trumbauer, M., Stevens, K., Xie, Q.W., Sokol, K., Hutchison, N., Chen, H., Mudgett, J.S. 1995. Altered responses to bacterial infection and endotoxic shock in mice lacking inducible nitric oxide synthase. Cell, 81: 641–650.
- 13 Suzuki, Y., Conley, F.K., & Remington, J.S. 1989. Importance of endogenous interferon-gamma in prevention of toxoplasmic encephalitis in mice. J. Immunol. 145: 4185–4191.
- 14 Weiss, L.M., Ma, Y.F., Takvorian, P.M., Tanowitz, H.B. and Wittner, M. 1998. Bradyzoite development in Toxoplasma gondii and the hsp70 stress response. Infect. Immun., 66: 3295–3302.
- 15 Weiss, L.M., LaPlace, D., Tanowitz, H.B., & Wittner, M. 1992. Identification of Toxoplasma gondii bradyzoite-specific monoclonal antibodies. J. Infect. Dis., 166: 215–216.
