University of Alabama Birmingham: The Parkinson's Disease Gut Has an Overabundance of Opportunistic Pathogens
June 19, 2020
June 19, 2020
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, June 19 -- The University of Alabama Birmingham campus issued the following news:
Parkinson's disease is a common, progressive and debilitating neurodegenerative disease. It currently cannot be prevented or cured.
In 2003, Heiko Braak proposed that non-inherited forms of PD are caused by a pathogen in the gut. He hypothesized that the pathogen could pass through the intestinal mucosal barrier and spread to the brain through the nervous system. Up t . . .
Parkinson's disease is a common, progressive and debilitating neurodegenerative disease. It currently cannot be prevented or cured.
In 2003, Heiko Braak proposed that non-inherited forms of PD are caused by a pathogen in the gut. He hypothesized that the pathogen could pass through the intestinal mucosal barrier and spread to the brain through the nervous system. Up t . . .