Parkinson's Disease. From Clinical Aspects to Molecular Basis /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nagatsu, Toshiharu
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Narabayashi, Hirotaro, Yoshida, Mitsuo
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Vienna : Springer Vienna, 1991.
Series:Key topics in brain research.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Tyrosine hydroxylase in relation to Parkinson's disease: a historical overview and future prospect
  • Discovery of dopamine deficiency and the possibility of dopa therapy in Parkinsonism
  • Genes of human catecholamine-synthesizing enzymes
  • Receptor alterations in Parkinson's disease
  • Second messengers in Parkinson's disease
  • Mitochondrial energy crisis as a mechanism for nigral cell death
  • Tetrahydroisoquinoline and its derivatives: the occurence and the metabolism in the brain, and the effects on catacholamine metabolism
  • Can tetrahydroisoquinoline (TIQ) or N-methyl-TIQ produce parkinsonism?- Relationship between TIQs and Parkinson's disease
  • Sparteine oxidation in patients with early- and late-onset of Parkinson's disease
  • Association of Xba I allele (Xba I 44Kb) of the human cytochrome P-450dbI (CYP2D6) gene in Japanese patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease
  • Immunological aspects of neural transplantation
  • Epidemiology of Parkinson's disease-interplaying genes and environmental factors
  • Topics of special interest in research of Parkinson's disease
  • Importance of juvenile parkinsonism in elucidating the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease
  • Dopa-unresponsive pure akinesia or freezing
  • Hereditary progressive dystonia with marked diurnal fluctation
  • Positron emission tomographic study in Parkinson's disease
  • rigid vs tremor type
  • Role of stereotaxic surgery in treatment of Parkinson's disease
  • L-threo-DOPS-implications for pathophysiology of parkinsonian symptoms chronically treated with L-DOPA
  • Subject Index.