Iron-overload-induced ferroptosis in mouse cerebral toxoplasmosis promotes brain injury and could be inhibited by Deferiprone

• Chong Wang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chong Wang, Linding Xie

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Health Inspection and Quarantine, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China, Anhui Provincial Laboratory of Microbiology and Parasitology, and Anhui Provincial Laboratory of Zoonoses of High Institutions, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

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• Linding Xie ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chong Wang, Linding Xie

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Health Inspection and Quarantine, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China, Anhui Provincial Laboratory of Microbiology and Parasitology, and Anhui Provincial Laboratory of Zoonoses of High Institutions, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

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• Yien Xing,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Health Inspection and Quarantine, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China, Anhui Provincial Laboratory of Microbiology and Parasitology, and Anhui Provincial Laboratory of Zoonoses of High Institutions, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

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• Min Liu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Health Inspection and Quarantine, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China, Anhui Provincial Laboratory of Microbiology and Parasitology, and Anhui Provincial Laboratory of Zoonoses of High Institutions, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

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• Jun Yang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Health Inspection and Quarantine, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China, Anhui Provincial Laboratory of Microbiology and Parasitology, and Anhui Provincial Laboratory of Zoonoses of High Institutions, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

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• Nannan Gao,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Health Inspection and Quarantine, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China, Anhui Provincial Laboratory of Microbiology and Parasitology, and Anhui Provincial Laboratory of Zoonoses of High Institutions, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

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• Yihong Cai

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: yihongcai2022@163.com

  Affiliations Department of Health Inspection and Quarantine, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China, Anhui Provincial Laboratory of Microbiology and Parasitology, and Anhui Provincial Laboratory of Zoonoses of High Institutions, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6757-7440

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