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    Gastrointestinal mucosal biopsies in Parkinson’s disease: beyond alpha-synuclein detection

    Alpha-synuclein deposits, the pathological hallmarks of Parkinson’s disease, are consistently found in the gastrointestinal tract of parkinsonian subjects. These observations have raised the potential that end...

    Pascal Derkinderen, François Cossais in Journal of Neural Transmission (2022)

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    Is Parkinson’s disease a chronic low-grade inflammatory bowel disease?

    While the pathogenesis of Parkinson’s disease is not fully understood, there is increasing evidence that inflammatory responses in the brain are implicated in both disease initiation and progression. The infla...

    Malvyne Rolli-Derkinderen, Laurène Leclair-Visonneau in Journal of Neurology (2020)

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    Heterogeneous pattern of autonomic dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease

    Dysautonomic symptoms are frequent non-motor complaints in patients with Parkinson’s disease. Numerous neuropathological studies have shown that Lewy bodies and neurites, the pathological hallmarks of Parkinso...

    Laurène Leclair-Visonneau, Laurent Magy, Christelle Volteau in Journal of Neurology (2018)

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    Does Parkinson’s disease start in the gut?

    Parkinson’s disease (PD) is pathologically characterized by the presence of intraneuronal inclusions, termed Lewy bodies and Lewy neurites, whose main component is alpha-synuclein. Based on the topographic dis...

    Arthur Lionnet, Laurène Leclair-Visonneau, Michel Neunlist in Acta Neuropathologica (2018)

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    Erratum to: An exploratory randomised double-blind and placebo-controlled phase 2 study of a combination of baclofen, naltrexone and sorbitol (PXT3003) in patients with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1A

    Shahram Attarian, Jean-Michel Vallat, Laurent Magy in Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases (2016)

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    Structural alterations of the intestinal epithelial barrier in Parkinson’s disease

    Functional and morphological alterations of the intestinal epithelial barrier (IEB) have been consistently reported in digestive disorders such as irritable bowel syndrome and inflammatory bowel disease. There...

    Thomas Clairembault, Laurène Leclair-Visonneau in Acta Neuropathologica Communications (2015)

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    An exploratory randomised double-blind and placebo-controlled phase 2 study of a combination of baclofen, naltrexone and sorbitol (PXT3003) in patients with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1A

    Charcot-Marie-Tooth type 1A disease (CMT1A) is a rare orphan inherited neuropathy caused by an autosomal dominant duplication of a gene encoding for the structural myelin protein PMP22, which induces abnormal...

    Shahram Attarian, Jean-Michel Vallat, Laurent Magy in Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases (2014)