研究者们利用小鼠晶胚来培育脑组织,并且设定了一种环境,在此环境下,脑组织会逐渐流失左旋多巴胺神经细胞,这与帕金逊症的症状非常相似。
Using tissue from mouse embryos, researchers prepared brain cultures using conditions that favor the slowly progressing loss of dopamine neurons, a hallmark of the disease.
经常患者拿着左旋多巴的处方,左旋多巴在脑细胞中在酶的作用可以转变为多巴胺。
Often patients are given prescriptions for levodopa, or L-dopa, which is converted into dopamine by enzymes in the brain.
小剂量左旋多巴和多巴胺激动剂治疗有效。
Low dose levodopa and dopamine agonists are effective in controlling most symptoms of the disorder.
The drug L-DOPA increases the supply of dopamine and so there is something to alleviate, at least temporarily, the symptoms of Parkinson's.
左旋多巴这种药可以增加多巴胺的分泌量,所以这种药物,至少可以暂时性地缓解,帕金森症的症状
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