The microbiome–gut–brain axis in Parkinson disease—from basic research to the clinic

AH Tan, SY Lim, AE Lang - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2022‏ - nature.com
Evidence for a close bidirectional link between the brain and the gut has led to a paradigm
shift in neurology, especially in the case of Parkinson disease (PD), in which gastrointestinal …

[HTML][HTML] Neuropathology of Alzheimer's disease

JA Trejo-Lopez, AT Yachnis, S Prokop - Neurotherapeutics, 2022‏ - Elsevier
The key pathological hallmarks—extracellular plaques and intracellular neurofibrillary
tangles (NFT)—described by Alois Alzheimer in his seminal 1907 article are still central to …

Brain-first versus body-first Parkinson's disease: a multimodal imaging case-control study

J Horsager, KB Andersen, K Knudsen, C Skjærbæk… - Brain, 2020‏ - academic.oup.com
Parkinson's disease is characterized by the presence of abnormal, intraneuronal α-
synuclein aggregates, which may propagate from cell-to-cell in a prion-like manner …

Gut microbiome dysbiosis across early Parkinson's disease, REM sleep behavior disorder and their first-degree relatives

B Huang, SWH Chau, Y Liu, JWY Chan, J Wang… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
The microbiota-gut-brain axis has been suggested to play an important role in Parkinson's
disease (PD). Here we performed a cross-sectional study to profile gut microbiota across …

Impact of microbiota on central nervous system and neurological diseases: the gut-brain axis

Q Ma, C **ng, W Long, HY Wang, Q Liu… - Journal of …, 2019‏ - Springer
Abstract Development of central nervous system (CNS) is regulated by both intrinsic and
peripheral signals. Previous studies have suggested that environmental factors affect …

Gastrointestinal involvement in Parkinson's disease: pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management

T Warnecke, KH Schäfer, I Claus, K Del Tredici… - npj Parkinson's …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Growing evidence suggests an increasing significance for the extent of gastrointestinal tract
(GIT) dysfunction in Parkinson's disease (PD). Most patients suffer from GIT symptoms …

Fecal microbiota transplantation in neurological disorders

KEW Vendrik, RE Ooijevaar, PRC De Jong… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2020‏ - frontiersin.org
Background: Several studies suggested an important role of the gut microbiota in the
pathophysiology of neurological disorders, implying that alteration of the gut microbiota …

[HTML][HTML] Neuropathological evidence of body-first vs. brain-first Lewy body disease

P Borghammer, J Horsager, K Andersen… - Neurobiology of …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Aggregation of alpha-synuclein into inclusion bodies, termed Lewy pathology, is a defining
feature of Parkinson's disease (PD) and Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). In the majority of …

Gut microbiota: a novel therapeutic target for Parkinson's disease

M Zhu, X Liu, Y Ye, X Yan, Y Cheng, L Zhao… - Frontiers in …, 2022‏ - frontiersin.org
Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disease
characterized by motor dysfunction. Growing evidence has demonstrated that gut dysbiosis …

Motor and non-motor circuit disturbances in early Parkinson disease: which happens first?

J Blesa, G Foffani, B Dehay, E Bezard… - Nature Reviews …, 2022‏ - nature.com
For the last two decades, pathogenic concepts in Parkinson disease (PD) have revolved
around the toxicity and spread of α-synuclein. Thus, α-synuclein would follow caudo-rostral …