{"id":4643,"date":"2016-02-15T16:36:47","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T21:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4643"},"modified":"2016-02-26T12:42:19","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T17:42:19","slug":"visualizing-the-blood-brain-barrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/visualizing-the-blood-brain-barrier\/","title":{"rendered":"Visualizing the blood-brain barrier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Using a microscope to see inside living tissue, researchers have found how the parasite <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Toxoplasma gondii <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">passes through the blood brain barrier to invade the central nervous system.\u00a0The researchers hope this finding will help develop effective strategies to stop the parasite from entering and damaging the brain.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>T. <\/em><\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">gondii <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">infects about 30 per cent of the world\u2019s population. It can be particularly dangerous for those with a compromised immune system and for pregnant women as the parasite can be passed from a mother to her unborn child where it can invade the brain.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/multimedia\/pub\/108872.php?from=319026\" target=\"_blank\">video is available<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/nmicrobiol20161\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in <em>Nature Microbiology\u00a0<\/em>on <strong>February 15<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Christopher Hunter, Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A.<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using a microscope to see inside living tissue, researchers have found how the parasite Toxoplasma gondii passes through the blood brain barrier to invade the central nervous system.\u00a0The researchers hope this finding will help develop effective strategies to stop the parasite from entering and damaging the brain. T. gondii infects about 30 per cent of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[113,992,51,2506],"class_list":["post-4643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-biology","tag-brain","tag-health","tag-parasite"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1cT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4644,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4643\/revisions\/4644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}