Despite being a mainstay of Parkinson's disease treatment, levodopa, a dopamine-replenishing medication, can cause nasty side ...

Previous studies in a rat model of Parkinson disease (PD) have shown that dyskinesia induced by L-DOPA—a treatment-limiting adverse effect of long-term administration—is caused by the release ...

We examined the effect of L-DOPA in the dose used for GH stimulation on the LH,FSH and Pr levels in 9 subjects with Turner syndrome, who had never received estrogens. We found the following (mean ...

However, nicotine may modulate dopamine transmission and has clear motor effects when associated with L-DOPA, reducing L-DOPA-induced dyskinesias. Clinical trials have yielded inconclusive results ...

L-Dopa, derived from the L-Dopa bean (Mucuna pruriens), is crucial for dopamine production, which plays a key role in mood regulation and auditory processing. By supporting dopamine levels ...