Appendectomy, Tonsillectomy and Parkinson's Disease Risk: A Swedish Register-Based Study
Introduction: The gut-brain hypothesis proposes that Parkinson's disease (PD) pathology may start in the gut and later spread to the brain in a prion-like manner. As PD pathology is redundant in the appendix and tonsils, which are important gut-associated lymphoid tissues, we examined whether a...
Main Authors: | Bojing Liu, Fang Fang, Weimin Ye, Karin Wirdefeldt |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2020-06-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Neurology |
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Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fneur.2020.00510/full |
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