Unmyelinated axons are more vulnerable to degeneration than myelinated axons of the cardiac nerve in Parkinson's disease

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Diminished tyrosine hydroxylase immunoreactivity in the cardiac conduction system and myocardium in Parkinson’s disease: an anatomical study

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Cardiac sympathetic denervation in Parkinson’s disease linked to SNCA duplication

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Evidence that incidental Lewy body disease is pre-symptomatic Parkinson’s disease

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Lewy Body Pathology Involves Cutaneous Nerves

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Axonal  -synuclein aggregates herald centripetal degeneration of cardiac sympathetic nerve in Parkinson's disease

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