Posted on 02/14/2013 1:19:40 AM PST by neverdem
It's not just dopamine apparently. My main reason for liking the press releases at ScienceDaily is that about 9 out of 10 ten times they give you a link to the original citation near the end.
During acute infection in human and animal hosts, the obligate intracellular protozoan Toxoplasma gondii infects a variety of cell types, including leukocytes. Poised to respond to invading pathogens, dendritic cells (DC) may also be exploited by T. gondii for spread in the infected host. Here, we report that human and mouse myeloid DC possess functional γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) receptors and the machinery for GABA biosynthesis and secretion.BTW, I came across that number for the global prevalence of T. gondii after stumbling into:
Red Brain, Blue Brain: Republicans and Democrats Process Risk Differently, Research Finds
The NY Times had a story about the burden of Chagas disease. So I checked ScienceDaily to see if they had something when I noticed the last link.
Toxoplasma uses GABA to protect itself from attack by the immune system, but I didn’t want to add that to the dopamine comment as, while important, it is somewhat extraneous to mind control.
BOOKbump
Toxoplasmosis is widely believed to cause people to repeatedly and sillily post cat pictures on Free Republic.
Since the condition is not fatal, the practice will likely waste bandwidth eternally
Thank you for this information.
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