The role of dopamine in Toxoplasma-induced behavioural alterations in mice: an ethological and ethopharmacological study

Abstract

Toxoplasma gondii, a cosmopolitan protozoan parasite, is known to induce behavioural alterations in rodents and may exert an effect on human personality and behaviour. The mechanism of Parasite-induced alterations in host behaviour has not been described

Keywords

• parasite
• dopamine
• exploration
• holeboard
• GBR 12909
• inbred mouse strains
• novelty-seeking
• rattus-norvegicus
• individual-differences
• gondii infection
• laboratory rats
• responses
• anxiety
• agonist
• apomorphine