Thursday, January 5, 2017

Protein associated with Parkinson's travels from brain to gut

‘Alpha-synuclein,’ a protein involved in a series of neurological disorders including Parkinson’s disease, is capable of traveling from brain to stomach and does so following a specific pathway, researchers have discovered. This study, carried out in rats, sheds new light on pathological processes that could underlie disease progression in humans.



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