Protein associated with Parkinson's travels from brain to gut

(DZNE - German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases) Researchers of the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases have found that 'alpha-synuclein,' a protein involved in a series of neurological disorders including Parkinson's disease, is capable of traveling from brain to stomach and that it does so following a specific pathway. Donato Di Monte and co-workers report on this in the journal Acta Neuropathologica. Their study, carried out in rats, sheds new light on pathological processes tha...