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Colonic inflammation in Parkinson's disease.

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Findings provide evidence that enteric inflammation occurs in Parkinson's disease and further reinforce the role of peripheral inflammation in the initiation and/or the progression of the disease.
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This article is published in Neurobiology of Disease.The article was published on 2013-02-01. It has received 446 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Glial fibrillary acidic protein & Parkinson's disease.

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Gut microbiota are related to Parkinson's disease and clinical phenotype.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that the intestinal microbiome is altered in PD and is related to motor phenotype, and the suitability of the microbiome as a biomarker is warranted.
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Interactions between the microbiota, immune and nervous systems in health and disease

TL;DR: The role of CNS-resident and peripheral immune pathways in microbiota–gut–brain communication during health and neurological disease is discussed.
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Short chain fatty acids and gut microbiota differ between patients with Parkinson's disease and age-matched controls.

TL;DR: This study confirms the recently reported association between PD and the abundance of certain gut microbiota and shows a reduction in fecal SCFA concentrations, which might, theoretically, induce alterations in the ENS and contribute to gastrointestinal dysmotility in PD.
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Increased production of tumour necrosis factor-alpha interleukin-1 beta, and interleukin-6 by morphologically normal intestinal biopsies from patients with Crohn's disease.

TL;DR: These consistently raised TNF-alpha, IL-1 beta and IL-6 secretions by normal appearing mucosa from patients with Crohn's disease provide evidence for a sustained immune stimulation in Crohn't disease even in the absence of patent inflammation.
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Enterocolitis induced by autoimmune targeting of enteric glial cells: a possible mechanism in Crohn's disease?

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that disruption of theEnteric glial cell network in CD patients represents another early pathological feature that may be modeled after CD8+ T cell-mediated autoimmune targeting of enteric glia in double transgenic mice.
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Evidence for the presence of S-100 protein in the glial component of the human enteric nervous system.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated here, using immunohistochemistry and electron immunocytochemistry, that both enteric glial cells and Schwann cells of the human gut contain densely immunoreactive S-100, and this protein can therefore be regarded as a common marker for the glial components of the enteric nervous system.
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Pathological lesions in colonic biopsies during Parkinson’s disease

TL;DR: Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative condition that affects 1% of the population over 65 years of age as discussed by the authors.The two pathological hallmarks of PD are a loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra (SN) and the presence of cytoplasmic eosinophilic inclusions termed Lewy bodies (LBs).
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Changes in enteric neurone phenotype and intestinal functions in a transgenic mouse model of enteric glia disruption

TL;DR: Glia disruption induces changes in the neurochemical coding of enteric neurones, which may partly be responsible for dysfunctions in intestinal motility and permeability.
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