Carbidopa/levodopa/entacapone: the evidence for its place in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease

INTRODUCTION: Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a common neurodegenerative disease. In the 1960s, it was shown that the degeneration of dopamine producing neurons in the substantia nigra (SN) caused the motor features of PD. Dopamine replacement with levodopa, a dopamine precursor, resulted in remarkable...

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Autores principales: Poulopoulos, Markos, Waters, Cheryl
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2010
Materias:
Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2915499/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20694135

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2915499/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20694135

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