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Reduction of Short-Chain Fatty Acid-Producing Gut Microbiota Leads to Transition from Rapid-Eye-Movement Sleep Behavior Disorder to Parkinson’s Disease
2020-08-10
Abstract excerpt
Gut dysbiosis has been reported repeatedly in Parkinson’s disease (PD), but once in rapid-eye-movement sleep behavior disorder (RBD) from Germany. Abnormal aggregation of α-synuclein fibrils causing PD possibly starts from the intestine. RBD patients frequently develop PD. Early-stage gut dysbiosis that is causally associated with PD is thus expected to be observed in RBD. We analyzed gut microbiota in 26 RBD pati...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 6a06d435-90d6-57fa-8c76-ee181f491055
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.08.07.242453
