The case of levodopa degradation in PD is illustrative: scientists identified a gut bacterial tyrosine decarboxylase that was eating up patients Parkinsons medication, and they found a small-molecule inhibitor that could block this enzyme and thus prevent levodopa loss
[59] found that betanin (extracted from beetroot) dose dependently (515 m) increased the activity of nuclear factor (erythroid-derived 2)-like 2 (Nrf2), a transcription factor that activates a gene promoter sequence: the antioxidant response element (ARE) responsible for the transcription of several endogenous antioxidant enzymes [59,60,61]
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