Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A drug, C10H14N2O4, that increases the availability of L-dopa to the brain and is administered with L-dopa to treat Parkinson's disease.
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- noun A
drug given to people withParkinson's disease to inhibitperipheral metabolism oflevodopa .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Treatments for symptom relief: Drugs levodopa with carbidopa, anticholinergics, surgery and deep-brain stimulation
Drug Concerns in Parkinson's Shirley S. Wang 2011
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Levodopa combined with carbidopa is the most widely used drug treatment for Parkinson's disease.
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It is combined with carbidopa, to prevent the levodopa from converting too soon to dopamine, prior to entering the brain.
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Physicians prescribe it in combination with another drug, carbidopa, and the resultant medication is called Sinemet.
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Physicians prescribe it in combination with another drug, carbidopa, and the resultant medication is called Sinemet.
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ABT -- was granted fast-track designation by the US Food and Drug Administration for Duodopa, the levodopa/carbidopa intestinal gel it is developing for the long-term treatment of motor fluctuations associated with advanced Parkinson's disease.
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The study compared the new formulation to the standard form of the drugs carbidopa and levodopa.
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FMS201 is a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase II trial designed to investigate several dosing options for droxidopa, both alone an in combination with carbidopa.
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Almost two years later in 2008, Impax announced that it had begun work to develop this next-generation carbidopa/levodopa product.
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It is combined with carbidopa, to prevent the levodopa from converting too soon to dopamine, prior to entering the brain.
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