Figure 1. Relative expression levels of BAG1 and SAG1 in the brains of chronically infected mice before and after transportation stress.

The T. gondii PRU strain was used to infect Kunming mice, six weeks post infection, chronically infected mice were placed under conditions mimicking transportation stress for 3 days (no treatment as negative control, 3 mice each group). Subsequently, total RNA was extracted from mice brains and RT-PCR was used to determine the mRNA levels for BAG1 and SAG1. β-tubulin was used as internal control. Means ± SD from three independent experiments were graphed, *P <0.05, student's t-test.