Unimpaired postprandial pancreatic polypeptide secretion in Parkinson's disease and REM sleep behavior disorder.

Pancreatic polypeptide is released immediately after food ingestion. The release is operated by vagal-abdominal projections and has therefore been suggested as a test for vagal nerve integrity. Pathoanatomical and clinical studies indicate vagal dysfunction in early Parkinson's disease (PD). We assessed the postprandial secretion of pancreatic polypeptide and motilin in healthy controls (n = 18) and patients with idiopathic rapid-eye-movement sleep behavior disorder (iRBD, n = 10), a potential premotor stage of PD, as well as in drug-naive (n = 19) and treated (n = 19) PD patients. The postprandial pancreatic polypeptide secretion showed a physiological pattern in all groups and even an enhanced response in drug-naive PD and iRBD. Motilin concentrations correlated with pancreatic polypeptide concentrations. Postprandial pancreatic polypeptide secretion is not a suitable test for vagal nerve integrity in PD. The unimpaired pancreatic polypeptide response in iRBD and PD might be explained by partially intact vagal-abdominal projections or compensatory mechanisms substituting a defective neuronal brain-gut axis. Copyright © 2012 Movement Disorders Society.

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Marcus M Unger, Rolf Ekman, Anna-Karin Björklund, Gösta Karlsson, Chatarina Andersson, Katharina Mankel, Katharina Bohne, Johannes J Tebbe, Karin Stiasny-Kolster, Jens C Möller, Geert Mayer, Peter H Kann, Wolfgang H Oertel. Unimpaired postprandial pancreatic polypeptide secretion in Parkinson's disease and REM sleep behavior disorder. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society. 2013 Apr;28(4):529-33

PMID: 23239509

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