## Abstract The effect of selegiline (L‐deprenyl) on plasma catecholamines, clinical response, and drug tolerability was studied in 13 patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) treated with L‐Dopa/benserazide and entacapone, a peripheral catechol‐__O__‐methyltransferase (COMT) inhibitor, in a placebo‐
Reversible spastic and pyramidal tract signs in a patient with parkinson's disease on L-Dopa
✍ Scribed by Sepp Seyfert; Max Straschill
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1977
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 201 KB
- Volume
- 216
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0340-5354
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