Is the decreasing responsiveness of axial motor symptoms to L-dopa in elderly parkinsonian patients related to age-associated nonparkinsonian pathologies?

Adv Neurol. 1993:60:685-9.
No abstract available

MeSH terms

  • Age Factors
  • Aged
  • Brain / drug effects
  • Brain / physiopathology
  • Dementia / drug therapy
  • Dementia / physiopathology
  • Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Levodopa / adverse effects
  • Levodopa / therapeutic use*
  • Male
  • Motor Activity / drug effects*
  • Motor Activity / physiology
  • Motor Skills / drug effects
  • Motor Skills / physiology
  • Movement Disorders / drug therapy
  • Movement Disorders / physiopathology
  • Muscle Rigidity / drug therapy
  • Muscle Rigidity / physiopathology
  • Neurologic Examination / drug effects*
  • Parkinson Disease / drug therapy*
  • Parkinson Disease / physiopathology

Substances

  • Levodopa