Environmental Exposure, Obesity, and Parkinson’s Disease: Lessons from Fat and Old Worms
Author(s) -
Layla Aitlhadj,
Daiana Silva Ávila,
Alexandre Benedetto,
Michael Aschner,
Stephen R. Stürzenbaum
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
environmental health perspectives
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257
H-Index - 282
eISSN - 1552-9924
pISSN - 0091-6765
DOI - 10.1289/ehp.1002522
Subject(s) - neurodegeneration , parkinson's disease , obesity , neurotoxicity , disease , biology , mechanism (biology) , neuroscience , population , caenorhabditis elegans , lrrk2 , bioinformatics , medicine , environmental health , endocrinology , genetics , toxicity , philosophy , epistemology , gene
A common link has been exposed, namely, that metal exposure plays a role in obesity and in Parkinson's disease (PD). This link may help to elucidate mechanisms of neurotoxicity.
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