Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10746927 | Parkinsonism & Related Disorders | 2005 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
Involuntary movements, or dyskinesia, represent a debilitating complication of levodopa therapy for Parkinson's disease. Taking advantage of a monkey brain bank constituted to study the pathophysiology of levodopa-induced dyskinesia, we here report the changes affecting D1, D2 and D3 dopamine receptors within the striatum of four experimental groups of non-human primates: normal, parkinsonian, parkinsonian treated with levodopa without or with dyskinesia. We also report the possible role of arrestin and G protein-coupled receptor kinases.
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Authors
C. Guigoni, I. Aubert, Q. Li, V.V. Gurevich, J.L. Benovic, S. Ferry, U. Mach, H. Stark, L. Leriche, K. HÃ¥kansson, Bernard H. Bioulac, Christian E. Gross, Pierre Sokoloff, Gilberto Fisone, E.V. Gurevich, Bertrand Bloch, Erwan Bezard,