---

• n  amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain

• Pharmacologists have been searching for 30 years for a drug to combine effectively with L-dopa and mute the turbocharger effect, but none has emerged.
• May I suggest instead that the L-dopa causes the patients to believe, gullibly and irrationally, that the nurses would encourage and welcome their advances?.
• As a result, L-dopa, although subject to unprecedented safeguards because of its undesirable side effects, now becomes available for general prescription use.

• dihydroxyphenylalanine

News & Articles

---

• Civitas Therapeutics Receives Second Grant for Their Lead Product CVT-301 from The Michael J. Fox Foundation for ...
  CHELSEA, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Civitas Therapeutics receives $1m grant from Michael J. Fox Foundation for their lead product, an inhaled formulation of L-dopa, for Parkinson's Disease
  June 18, 2013 - Business Wire

Quotes

---

• Paul Greengard in News-Medical.net
  Blocking the dopamine D1 receptor is not a treatment option for L-DOPA-induced side effects, since it would diminish the therapeutic efficiency of L-DOPA,says Greengard, who is Vincent Astor Professor and head of the Laboratory of Molecular...