Striatal Astrocytes Act as a Reservoir for L-DOPA

L-DOPA is therapeutically efficacious in patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD), although dopamine (DA) neurons are severely degenerated. Since cortical astrocytes express neutral amino acid transporter (LAT) and DA transporter (DAT), the uptake and metabolism of L-DOPA and DA in striatal astrocytes...

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Autores principales: Asanuma, Masato, Miyazaki, Ikuko, Murakami, Shinki, Diaz-Corrales, Francisco J., Ogawa, Norio
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/PMC4154692/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25188235
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0106362

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4154692/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25188235
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0106362

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