1. Altered gut microbiota and inflammatory cytokine responses in patients with Parkinson’s disease
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Yi-Cheng Tai, C. Y. Chang, Chieh-Chang Chen, Han-Lin Chiang, Eric Y. Chuang, Jyh-Ming Liou, Chieh Cheng, Chin-Hsien Lin, Tzu-Pin Lu, Han-Yi Lin, and Ming-Shiang Wu
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0301 basic medicine ,Male ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Immunology ,Population ,Taiwan ,Gut flora ,lcsh:RC346-429 ,Pathogenesis ,Cohort Studies ,03 medical and health sciences ,Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience ,0302 clinical medicine ,Immune system ,Neuroinflammation ,Lactobacillus ,Medicine ,Humans ,education ,lcsh:Neurology. Diseases of the nervous system ,Aged ,education.field_of_study ,Gut microbiome ,biology ,business.industry ,General Neuroscience ,Research ,Parkinson Disease ,Middle Aged ,biology.organism_classification ,medicine.disease ,Gastrointestinal Microbiome ,030104 developmental biology ,Cytokine ,Neurology ,Parkinson’s disease ,Dysbiosis ,Cytokines ,Female ,Bacteroides ,Inflammation Mediators ,business ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Biomarkers - Abstract
Objective Emerging evidence suggests that gut microbiome composition alterations affect neurodegeneration through neuroinflammation in the pathogenesis of Parkinson’s disease (PD). Here, we evaluate gut microbiota alterations and host cytokine responses in a population of Taiwanese patients with PD. Methods Fecal microbiota communities from 80 patients with PD and 77 age and gender-matched controls were assessed by sequencing the V3–V4 region of the 16S ribosomal RNA gene. Diet and comorbidities were controlled in the analyses. Plasma concentrations of IL-1β, IL-2, IL-4, IL-6, IL-13, IL-18, GM-CSF, IFNγ, and TNFα were measured by a multiplex immunoassay and relationships between microbiota, clinical characteristics, and cytokine levels were analyzed in the PD group. We further examined the cytokine changes associated with the altered gut microbiota seen in patients with PD in another independent cohort of 120 PD patients and 120 controls. Results Microbiota from patients with PD was altered relative to controls and dominated by Verrucomicrobia, Mucispirillum, Porphyromonas, Lactobacillus, and Parabacteroides. In contrast, Prevotella was more abundant in controls. The abundances of Bacteroides were more increased in patients with non-tremor PD subtype than patients with tremor subtype. Bacteroides abundance was correlated with motor symptom severity defined by UPDRS part III motor scores (rho = 0.637 [95% confidence interval 0.474 to 0.758], P
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- 2019