{"id":84227,"date":"2018-10-31T14:03:50","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T21:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/scientists-find-link-between-parkinsons-disease-and-the-appendix"},"modified":"2018-11-01T15:10:19","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T22:10:19","slug":"scientists-find-link-between-parkinsons-disease-and-the-appendix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/scientists-find-link-between-parkinsons-disease-and-the-appendix","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Find Link Between Parkinson\u2019s Disease and the Appendix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-find-link-between-parkinsons-disease-and-the-appendix.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have found further evidence that the gut, or more specifically the appendix, might play a role in the development of Parkinson\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n<p>The international team of scientists reviewed two datasets, including a large registry from Sweden, and found that removal of the appendix was associated with a decreased risk of developing Parkinson\u2019s disease. They also found that the human appendix contains clumps of a protein called alpha-synuclein in a form associated with the disease. There\u2019s more work to be done, and the authors are not advocating that people preemptively remove their appendixes, but they hope that the research could provide a pathway towards treatment.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/scientists-find-link-between-parkinsons-disease-and-the-1830127056\">https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/scientists-find-link-between-parkinsons-...1830127056<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have found further evidence that the gut, or more specifically the appendix, might play a role in the development of Parkinson\u2019s disease. The international team of scientists reviewed two datasets, including a large registry from Sweden, and found that removal of the appendix was associated with a decreased risk of developing Parkinson\u2019s disease. They [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84304,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84227\/revisions\/84304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}