The Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics
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December 16, 1988
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Drugs for Parkinsonism
December 16, 1988 (Issue: 781)
Patients with Parkinson's disease have a deficiency of the neurotransmitter dopamine, a catecholamine. Dpamine itself cannot be used to treat the disease because it does not cross the blood-brain barrier, but its metabolic precursor, levodopa, does...more
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