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Oral Microbiota and Porphyromonas gingivalis Kgp Genotypes Altered in Parkinson's Disease with Mild Cognitive Impairment.
Molecular neurobiology - 1 Nov 2024
Li Dongcheng, Ren Tengzhu, Li Hao, Huang Mingdi, Chen Jiaxin, He Qishan, Lv Wei, Liu Hailing, Xu Renshi, Zhang Xiong
Abstract excerpt
Cognitive impairment (CI) is a common complication of the non-motor symptoms in Parkinson's disease (PD), including PD with mild cognitive impairment (PD-MCI) and PD dementia. Recent studies reported the oral dysbiosis in PD and CI, respectively. Porphyromonas gingivalis (P. gingivalis), a pathogen of oral dysbiosis, plays an important role in PD, whose lysine-gingipain (Kgp) could lead to AD-type pathologies. No...
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