The application of fecal microbiota transplantation in Parkinson’s disease

Boyan Wang, Di Ma, Na Li, Tianfei Luo · 2025

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Boyan Wang, Di Ma, Na Li, and Tianfei Luo review a bold treatment idea for Parkinson's disease: moving gut microbes from a healthy donor into a patient. Their review is from two thousand twenty-five. Parkinson's harms movement and other body systems, and no current drug slows the disease itself. Gut microbes may be part of the story.

Patients with Parkinson's often have an unbalanced gut community. A leaky gut wall can let harmful products reach the nerves of the gut and then the brain. A broken blood-brain barrier adds to the harm. Early studies suggest donor microbes can ease both movement and other symptoms. The authors say much more lab and clinical work is needed to nail down how it helps and how best to give it.

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CREATORBoyan Wang, Di Ma, Na Li, Tianfei Luo
YEAR2025
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE89 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC12753937

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