Environmental Risk Factors for Parkinson's Disease
In 1983, Langston and co-workers discovered that intravenous injection of the toxin 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,5,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP) from failed drug synthesis was able to induce parkinsonian syndrome (Langston et al. , 1983; Zeng et al. , 2018). Since then, epidemiological research has revealed several environmental and lifestyle-linked factors...