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TWiP 60: Urine a game of cat and mouse

  • September 25, 2013
  • Tagged as: aversion, hard wired, mouse, parasite, parasitism, toxoplasma gondii, urine

Vincent and Dickson discuss how infection with Toxoplasma gondii causes mice to lose their aversion to cat urine, even after the parasites have been cleared.

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Christina Naula, Ph.D.


Daniel Griffin, M.D.,

Vincent Racaniello, Ph.D.


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