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REVIEW article

Front. Mol. Neurosci.

Sec. Brain Disease Mechanisms

Volume 18 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fnmol.2025.1682006

This article is part of the Research TopicMolecular Neuroscience: Current and Future ChallengesView all 4 articles

Peripheral–Central Immune Interactions in Parkinson's Disease: Insights into Innate and Adaptive Immunity

Provisionally accepted
  • 1North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • 2Niigata University, Niigata, Japan

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Parkinson's disease (PD) is a complex, multisystem disorder characterized by chronic inflammatory processes. The development of effective immunomodulatory therapies for PD requires a novel and comprehensive understanding of the coordinated interactions between central and peripheral innate and adaptive immune responses that are initiated and evolve throughout disease onset and progression. Immune system dysregulation is a defining feature of PD, with a substantial body of evidence indicating pathological alterations in both central and peripheral immune responses that evolve dynamically over the course of the disease. In PD, central inflammation is defined by the activation of astrocytes, microglia and T-cell responses within the central nervous system. In contrast, peripheral inflammation involves the activation of T-cell signaling and innate immune cells in the enteric nervous system, circulatory system and gastrointestinal tract. However, the underlying mechanisms of this inflammation in PD-associated diseases remain unclear, and identifying the initial stages of these diseases is a major unmet need. This review seeks to address this question by highlighting and discussing the central and peripheral systems through the collection of current data from clinical evidence and findings from experiments.

Keywords: Parkinson diseases, Immune System, Peripheral and Central nervous system immune response, Neuroinflammation, Adaptive Immunity

Received: 08 Aug 2025; Accepted: 25 Sep 2025.

Copyright: © 2025 Tumpa, Hayder, Maisa and Islam. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

* Correspondence: Md. Nazmul Islam, mdinazmul@gmail.com

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