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SUBMITTER: Li P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7823437 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Li Peipei P Killinger Bryan A BA Ensink Elizabeth E Beddows Ian I Yilmaz Ali A Lubben Noah N Lamp Jared J Schilthuis Meghan M Vega Irving E IE Woltjer Randy R Pospisilik J Andrew JA Brundin Patrik P Brundin Lena L Graham Stewart F SF Labrie Viviane V
Metabolites 20210104 1
The gut microbiome can impact brain health and is altered in Parkinson's disease (PD). The vermiform appendix is a lymphoid tissue in the cecum implicated in the storage and regulation of the gut microbiota. We sought to determine whether the appendix microbiome is altered in PD and to analyze the biological consequences of the microbial alterations. We investigated the changes in the functional microbiota in the appendix of PD patients relative to controls (<i>n</i> = 12 PD, 16 C) by metatransc ...[more]