Levodopa pharmacokinetics -from stomach to brain : A study on patients with Parkinson’s disease

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is one of the most common neurodegenerative disorders and it is caused by a loss of dopamine (DA) producing neurons in the basal ganglia in the brain. The PD patient suffers from motor symptoms such as tremor, bradykinesia and rigidity and treatment with levodopa (LD), the p...

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Main Author: Nord, Maria
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Linköpings universitet, Avdelning för neurobiologi 2017
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