Trial reportJournal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996)2007
Comparison of 200 mg retarded release levodopa/carbidopa - with 150 mg levodopa/carbidopa/entacapone application: pharmacokinetics and efficacy in patients with Parkinson's disease.
Trial report in Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996), 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Efficacy and safety of extended-release carbidopa-levodopa (IPX203) versus immediate-release carbidopa-levodopa for Parkinson's disease: A systematic review.The Journal of international medical research · 2026Pooled it
- From medications to surgery: advances in the treatment of motor complications in Parkinson's disease.Drugs in context · 2019Review
- Levodopa-related cysteinyl-glycine and cysteine reduction with and without catechol-O-methyltransferase inhibition in Parkinson's disease patients.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2014Article
- Levodopa/carbidopa and entacapone in the treatment of Parkinson's disease: efficacy, safety and patient preference.Patient preference and adherence · 2009Article
- Peripheral COMT inhibition prevents levodopa associated homocysteine increase.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2009Article
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Abstract
The interval of line tracing performance is more associated to basal ganglia function due to the dependence on bradykinesia and rigidity. The other component of this task, the precision of execution of complex movement sequences, is more related to attention. We compared the motor response after once dosing of 200 mg retarded release LD (levodopa)/CD (carbidopa) and of 150 mg LD/CD/EN (entacapone) by rating of motor symptoms, by measurement of LD- and 3-O-methyldopa (3-OMD) plasma concentrations and by the outcomes of a line tracing task. Thirteen treated patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) took one of the two tested LD formulations on two consecutive days under randomised, double blind, identical standardised conditions. No significant differences appeared regarding rated motor response and LD plasma concentrations, but 3-OMD only significantly went up after LD/CD intake. LD/CD/EN was superior to LD/CD regarding the attention related components of line tracing probably due to a hypothetically increased dopamine occurrence at the prefrontal cortex, which guides human behaviour.
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