Entacapone Reduces Cortical Activation in Parkinson's Disease with Wearing-Off: A f-MRI Study

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Wearing-off is one of the most frequent problems encountered by levodopa-treated patients. Entacapone, a peripheral inhibitor of catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT), reduces this motor complication by prolonging the effect of levodopa. We sought to understand the impact of CO...

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Autores principales: Tambasco, Nicola, Muti, Marco, Chiarini, Pietro, Tarducci, Roberto, Caproni, Stefano, Castrioto, Anna, Nigro, Pasquale, Parnetti, Lucilla, Floridi, Pietro, Rossi, Aroldo, Calabresi, Paolo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4022515/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24830331
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0096806

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4022515/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24830331
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0096806

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