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A 140-amino-acid presynaptic protein whose misfolding into insoluble fibrils and their deposition in Lewy bodies is the defining neuropathological hallmark of parkinsons disease and the broader family of synucleinopathies (including Lewy body dementia and multiple syste…
Curli are functional amyloid fibers produced by escherichia coli, salmonella, and other Enterobacteriaceae as the primary protein component of their extracellular biofilm matrix. The curli subunit CsgA polymerizes into cross-beta-sheet amyloid fibrils that are structura…
Bidirectional communication between the gut microbiota and the central nervous system, mediated by neural (vagus nerve, enteric nervous system), immune (cytokines, microglia), endocrine (HPA axis), and metabolic (SCFAs, neurotransmitter precursors, tryptophan metabolite…
The second most common neurodegenerative disease, affecting over 10 million people worldwide dorsey 2018 parkinsons incidence meta analysis. Characterized by progressive loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra, alpha-synuclein aggregation (Lewy bodies), and…