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Progress in Understanding and Treating Parkinson's Disease

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2015

André Barbeau
André Barbeau*
Affiliation:
Department of Neurobiology, Clinical Research Institute of Montreal
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Clinical Research Institute of Montreal, 110 Pine Avenue West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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This review evaluates the long-term results of Levodopa therapy in Parkinson's disease upon quality of life, prolongation of survival and excess mortality. It also focuses on recent and new therapeutic approaches: Levodopa in comhindation with a Dopa-decarboxylase inhibitor or MAO-B inhibitor, dopamine agonists and an active tripeptide: L-prolyl-L-leucylglycine amide (M1F-I). It ends by looking at new avenues of etiological research in Parkinson's disease which may indicate specific accelerated ageing of catecholaminergic (pigmented) neuronal systems.

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Recent Progress
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Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , May 1976 , pp. 81 - 84
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Copyright © Canadian Neurological Sciences Federation 1976

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