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Spotlight on opicapone as an adjunct to levodopa in Parkinson’s disease: design, development and potential place in therapy

Overview of attention for article published in Drug Design, Development and Therapy, January 2017
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (84th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (80th percentile)

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Title
Spotlight on opicapone as an adjunct to levodopa in Parkinson’s disease: design, development and potential place in therapy
Published in
Drug Design, Development and Therapy, January 2017
DOI 10.2147/dddt.s104227
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Authors

Ádám Annus, László Vécsei

Abstract

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive, chronic, neurodegenerative disease characterized by rigidity, tremor, bradykinesia and postural instability secondary to dopaminergic deficit in the nigrostriatal system. Currently, disease-modifying therapies are not available, and levodopa (LD) treatment remains the gold standard for controlling motor and nonmotor symptoms of the disease. LD is extensively and rapidly metabolized by peripheral enzymes, namely, aromatic amino acid decarboxylase and catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT). To increase the bioavailability of LD, COMT inhibitors are frequently used in clinical settings. Opicapone is a novel COMT inhibitor that has been recently approved by the European Medicines Agency as an adjunctive therapy to combinations of LD and aromatic amino acid decarboxylase inhibitor in adult PD patients with end-of-dose motor fluctuations. We aimed to review the biochemical properties of opicapone, summarize its preclinical and clinical trials and discuss its future potential role in the treatment of PD.

Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 58 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 58 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 11 19%
Student > Bachelor 11 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 7%
Student > Postgraduate 3 5%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 3%
Other 8 14%
Unknown 19 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 9 16%
Medicine and Dentistry 7 12%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 10%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 7%
Neuroscience 4 7%
Other 5 9%
Unknown 23 40%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 10 April 2017.
All research outputs
#3,415,510
of 25,374,917 outputs
Outputs from Drug Design, Development and Therapy
#200
of 2,268 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#64,469
of 421,660 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Drug Design, Development and Therapy
#6
of 30 outputs
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