http://www.genengnews.com/gen-news-highlights/parasite-linked-with-alzheimers-and-parkinsons-diseases-epilepsy-and-cancer/81254919
About a third of the world’s population is chronically infected with the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii.
Data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
suggest that about 11% of the U.S. population aged 6 years and over is
infected with the parasite, while in other countries the infection rate
has been shown to be up to 95%.
Researchers from 16 institutions across the U.S., Canada, England,
Scotland, and Australia have now analyzed genetic, transcriptomic, and
proteomic data from infected individuals, and from studies in cell
cultures, to link T. gondii infection with a number of brain
disorders, including epilepsy, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, and
even some cancers. "This study is a paradigm shifter," stated co-author
Dennis Steindler, Ph.D., director of the Neuroscience and Aging Lab at
the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts
University. "We now have to insert infectious disease into the equation
of neurodegenerative diseases, epilepsy, and neural cancers. At the same
time, we have to translate aspects of this study into preventive
treatments that include everything from drugs to diet to lifestyle, in
order to delay disease onset and progression."
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