## Abstract Homocysteine, cysteine, and cysteinyl‐glycine are all metabolically interrelated. Levodopa/decarboxylase inhibitor (LD/DCI) administration increases total homocysteine (tHcy) plasma levels. Objectives were to investigate associations between LD/DCI intake, concentrations of tHcy, cystei
Elevation of total homocysteine levels in patients with Parkinson’s disease treated with duodenal levodopa/carbidopa gel
✍ Scribed by Thomas Müller; Constanze Jugel; Reinhard Ehret; Georg Ebersbach; Gunar Bengel; Siegfried Muhlack; Fabian Klostermann
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 253 KB
- Volume
- 118
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1435-1463
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