Treatment ‘may make disease worse'
NZPA-Reuter Dallas (Texas) Conventional treatment for Parkinson’s disease with the drug L-dopa may actually make the condition worse, a Duke University] Medical Centre researcher has said in Dallas. Dr Doyle Graham said that the" breakdown of L-dopa in the brain resulted in the production of toxic compounds which might enhance the degeneration of certain nerve cells in patients with Parkinson’s disease.
“This effect may be initially obscured by the temporary symptomatic relief which L-'dopa provides in many of these patients,” he said.
His theory was presented; at the sixty-third annual I meeting of the Federation of, American Societies for Experimental Biology. The organisation has] 18,000 members representing l [basic biomedical research; (disciplines which are drawn 'from all important educa-i itional, research, and clinical] ; institutions throughout the 1 lUnited States. Parkinson’s, disease is a neurological syndrome in which the patient suffers from rhythmic muscular , tremors, rigid movements, a strange gait, droopy posture I and a facial expression “lik (a mask.”
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Press, 12 April 1979, Page 7
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