ReviewCNS drugs2014
Continuous drug delivery in Parkinson's disease.
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20 citing papers in PubMed, 48 citations in OpenAlex.
- Addressing the need for standardization of symptomatic medication documentation in Parkinson's disease clinical research: A call to action.Journal of Parkinson's disease · 2025Review
- Levodopa-entacapone-carbidopa intestinal gel: Data from the Swedish national registry for Parkinson's disease.European journal of neurology · 2025Article
- Tools and criteria to select patients with advanced Parkinson's disease for device-aided therapies: a narrative review.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2023Review
- Therapies for Parkinson's disease and the gut microbiome: evidence for bidirectional connection.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2023Review
- Closing the loop for patients with Parkinson disease: where are we?Nature reviews. Neurology · 2022Review
- Protective effect of curcumin against rotenone-induced substantia nigra pars compacta neuronal dysfunction.Metabolic brain disease · 2022Article
- Levodopa-entacapone-carbidopa intestinal gel infusion in advanced Parkinson's disease: real-world experience and practical guidance.Therapeutic advances in neurological disorders · 2022Review
- Effects of Levodopa on quality of sleep and nocturnal movements in Parkinson's Disease.Journal of neurology · 2021Article
- Effects of Helicobacter pylori on Levodopa Pharmacokinetics.Journal of Parkinson's disease · 2021Review
- Improving the Delivery of Levodopa in Parkinson's Disease: A Review of Approved and Emerging Therapies.CNS drugs · 2020Review
- Neuroprotective effects of Danshensu on rotenone-induced Parkinson's disease models in vitro and in vivo.BMC complementary medicine and therapies · 2020Article
- Brain targeting stealth lipomers of combined antiepileptic-anti-inflammatory drugs as alternative therapy for conventional anti-Parkinson's.Saudi pharmaceutical journal : SPJ : the official publication of the Saudi Pharmaceutical Society · 2020Article
- Population pharmacokinetics of levodopa/carbidopa microtablets in healthy subjects and Parkinson's disease patients.European journal of clinical pharmacology · 2018Article
- Drug Delivery and Transport into the Central Circulation: An Example of Zero-Order In vivo Absorption of Rotigotine from a Transdermal Patch Formulation.European journal of drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics · 2018Article
- Dopamine and Levodopa Prodrugs for the Treatment of Parkinson's Disease.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2017Review
- Can suitable candidates for levodopa/carbidopa intestinal gel therapy be identified using current evidence?eNeurologicalSci · 2017Review
- Levodopa/carbidopa microtablets in Parkinson's disease: a study of pharmacokinetics and blinded motor assessment.European journal of clinical pharmacology · 2017Article
- A randomized trial of individual versus group-format exercise and self-management in individuals with Parkinson's disease and comorbid depression.Patient preference and adherence · 2017Article
- Quality of life in Parkinson's disease improved by apomorphine pump: the OPTIPUMP cohort study.Journal of neurology · 2016Observational
- Current Pharmaceutical Treatments and Alternative Therapies of Parkinson's Disease.Current neuropharmacology · 2016Review
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Abstract
Development of motor and non-motor complications during the course of Parkinson's disease (PD) is a major challenge for therapeutic management. At advanced disease stages, patients frequently fluctuate between PD symptoms-such as bradykinesia-and dyskinesias, in response to fluctuations in drug concentrations. Continuous subcutaneous infusion of the dopamine agonist apomorphine or intestinal infusion of levodopa reduce such fluctuations in both pharmacokinetics and motor function. This is the basis for the concept of continuous drug delivery in PD, and the more theoretical concept of continuous dopaminergic stimulation. These expressions are sometimes used to describe a treatment that is more continuous in its pharmacokinetic profile or that produces more sustained effects, compared with immediate-release levodopa, i.e. not only pump treatments. For example, sustained-release formulations of levodopa or dopamine agonists, transdermal delivery of rotigotine, and addition of catechol-O-methyltransferase inhibitors or monoamine oxidase-B inhibitors have been developed with the aim to provide more continuous drug concentrations, sustained benefits and minimized side effects. Progress has been made, but there are still knowledge gaps regarding how these treatment alternatives can be optimally used. New treatments are currently being developed to provide the continuous drug delivery that is known to successfully alleviate motor and non-motor complications. Hopefully, although not yet proven, these new methods may also prevent or postpone some of the late-stage complications.
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