Topic: sympathetic nerve

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a chronic neurodegenerative disease that is up to 90% idiopathic and occurs randomly in the population, possibly due to environmental factors. It is characterized by the progressive loss of dopaminergic neurons in the brain region called substantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc). This results in a range of motor and non-motor symptoms that severely impact the life quality of the affected individual. Studies have shown that gut dysbiosis in Parkinson's disease precedes neuronal degeneration, and our laboratory found that one of the environmental factors, dim light at nig