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ReviewMovement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society2015

Presynaptic effects of levodopa and their possible role in dyskinesia.

Eugene V Mosharov, Anders Borgkvist, David Sulzer

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Review in Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

36 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Levodopa treatment: impacts and mechanisms throughout Parkinson's disease progression.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2025
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  6. Updates on Parkinson's Disease.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2025
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  11. Chronic HPsychopharmacology · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Eugene V MosharovDepartments of Neurology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, USA.
Anders Borgkvist
David Sulzer

Funding

TRANSLATIONAL APPROACHES TO NEUROPROTECTION OF AXONS IN PDrP50NS038370 · NINDS · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI BURKE, ROBERT E · 1999 to 2014
$24.0M
The Presynaptic Vesicle Cycle for the Slow Acting Neurotransmitter SecretionP01DA010154 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI KREITZER, ANATOL, SULZER, DAVID · 1995 to 2016
$14.7M
The Dopamine Synapse and Associative LearningR01DA007418 · NIDA · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI David Sulzer · 1999 to 2026
$9.4M
Interaction between DA, alpha-Synuclein and Chaperone-Mediated AutophagyR01NS075222 · NINDS · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI MOSHAROV, EUGENE V · 2011 to 2015
$1.7M
NIDA NIH HHS P01 DA010154NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA007418NINDS NIH HHS P50 NS038370NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS075222NINDS NIH HHS R01NS075222
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Levodopa replacement therapy has long provided the most effective treatment for Parkinson's disease (PD). We review how this dopamine (DA) precursor enhances dopaminergic transmission by providing a greater sphere of neurotransmitter influence as a result of the confluence of increased quantal size and decreased DA reuptake, as well as loading DA as a false transmitter into surviving serotonin neuron synaptic vesicles. We further review literature on how presynaptic dysregulation of DA release after l-dopa might trigger dyskinesias in PD patients.

Indexed as

Dyskinesia, Drug-InducedAnimalsDopamineDopamine AgentsHumansLevodopaNeuronsParkinson DiseasePresynaptic TerminalsDopamineDopamine AgentsLevodopadopaminedyskinesialevodopaParkinson's Diseasepresynapticserotonin

Identifiers

PMID25450307
PMCPMC4314471

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