Chronic Parkinsonism in humans due to a product of meperidine-analog synthesis
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...Clearly, this issue is of great consequence in deciding about possible therapeutic strategies for PD.syndrome nearly identical to PD (Langston et al., 1983) is a prototypic example of how an exogenous toxin can Misfolding and Aggregation of Proteins The abnormal deposition of protein in brain…...
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...…of paraquat to mice leads to SNpc of a street preparation of 1-methyl-4-phenyl-4-propion-dopaminergic neuron degeneration accompanied by oxypiperidine (MPPP), an analog of the narcotic meperi- -synuclein containing inclusions, as well as increases dine (Demerol) (Langston et al., 1983)....
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...After the pro-toxin N-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP) was reported to produce in humans an acute parkinsonian syndrome that is virtually indistinguishable from idiopathic P...
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