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SUBMITTER: Melchor SJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7515928 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Melchor Stephanie J SJ Hatter Jessica A JA Castillo Érika A LaTorre ÉAL Saunders Claire M CM Byrnes Kari A KA Sanders Imani I Abebayehu Daniel D Barker Thomas H TH Ewald Sarah E SE
Scientific reports 20200924 1
Cachexia is a progressive muscle wasting disease that contributes to death in a wide range of chronic diseases. Currently, the cachexia field lacks animal models that recapitulate the long-term kinetics of clinical disease, which would provide insight into the pathophysiology of chronic cachexia and a tool to test therapeutics for disease reversal. Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) is a protozoan parasite that uses conserved mechanisms to infect rodents and human hosts. Infection is lifelong and has ...[more]