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Levodopa-induced dyskinesias in Parkinson’s disease: emerging treatments

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Levodopa-induced dyskinesias in Parkinson’s disease: emerging treatments
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Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, October 2013
DOI 10.2147/ndt.s36693
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Spyridon Konitsiotis, Panagiotis Bargiotas

Abstract

Parkinson's disease therapy is still focused on the use of L-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine (levodopa or L-dopa) for the symptomatic treatment of the main clinical features of the disease, despite intensive pharmacological research in the last few decades. However, regardless of its effectiveness, the long-term use of levodopa causes, in combination with disease progression, the development of motor complications termed levodopa-induced dyskinesias (LIDs). LIDs are the result of profound modifications in the functional organization of the basal ganglia circuitry, possibly related to the chronic and pulsatile stimulation of striatal dopaminergic receptors by levodopa. Hence, for decades the key feature of a potentially effective agent against LIDs has been its ability to ensure more continuous dopaminergic stimulation in the brain. The growing knowledge regarding the pathophysiology of LIDs and the increasing evidence on involvement of nondopaminergic systems raises the possibility of more promising therapeutic approaches in the future. In the current review, we focus on novel therapies for LIDs in Parkinson's disease, based mainly on agents that interfere with glutamatergic, serotonergic, adenosine, adrenergic, and cholinergic neurotransmission that are currently in testing or clinical development.

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Country Count As %
Germany 1 1%
Unknown 86 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 15 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 15%
Researcher 12 14%
Student > Master 12 14%
Other 7 8%
Other 11 13%
Unknown 17 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Neuroscience 19 22%
Medicine and Dentistry 17 20%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 16 18%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 5 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 2%
Other 8 9%
Unknown 20 23%
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