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Poorer results of mice with latent toxoplasmosis in learning tests: impaired learning processes or the novelty discrimination mechanism?

机译:弓形虫潜伏小鼠的学习测试结果较差:学习过程受损或新颖性鉴别机制?

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The heteroxenous protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii is transmitted from the intermediate host (any warm-blooded animal) to the definitive host (members of the felidae) by carnivory. The infected intermediate hosts develop several specific behavioural changes that are usually considered products of manipulative activity of the parasite aimed to increase the probability of its transmission to the definitive host. Among other changes, the infected rodents were shown to have impaired learning capability. All previous studies were done 2-6 weeks after the infection. Therefore, it was difficult to resolve whether the observed impairment of learning processes was a result of acute or latent toxoplasmosis, i.e. whether it was a side-effect of the disease or a product of manipulation activity. Here we studied the learning capability of Toxoplasma-infected mice in the static rod test and 8-arm radial maze test and their spontaneous activity in the wheel running test 10 weeks after the infection. The infected mice achieved worse scores in the learning tests but showed higher spontaneous activity in the wheel running test. However, a detailed study of the obtained results as well as of the data reported by other authors suggested that the differences between infected and control mice were a result of impaired ability to recognize novel stimuli rather than of impaired learning capacity in animals with latent toxoplasmosis.
机译:杂食性原生动物寄生弓形虫通过食肉动物从中间宿主(任何温血动物)传播到最终宿主(猫科动物的成员)。被感染的中间宿主会发展出几种特定的行为变化,通常被认为是寄生虫的操纵活动产物,旨在增加其传播给最终宿主的可能性。在其他变化中,被感染的啮齿动物被证明具有受损的学习能力。感染后2-6周完成所有先前的研究。因此,很难解决观察到的学习过程障碍是急性还是潜在弓形虫病的结果,即是该疾病的副作用还是操纵活动的产物。在这里,我们研究了感染弓形虫的小鼠在静态棒试验和8臂放射状迷宫试验中的学习能力,以及在感染后10周的滚轮行驶试验中的自发活动。被感染的小鼠在学习测试中得分较差,但在滚轮测试中显示出较高的自发活动。但是,对获得的结果以及其他作者报告的数据进行的详细研究表明,感染小鼠和对照组小鼠之间的差异是由于潜在弓形虫病动物识别新刺激的能力受损而不是学习能力受损的结果。

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