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13 December, 19:21

A group of nursing students are preparing for a class presentation to discuss drugs used to treat parkinson disease. which drug would the group include when discussing dopaminergic agents?

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  1. 13 December, 20:43
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    The group could include the drug levodopa as well as the dopamine agonists. Levodopa is a precursor of dopamine. While dopamine does not pass the blood-brain barrier, the levodopa does and it is transformed in dopamine as soon as it passes the barrier becoming free dopamine to be used in the brain - it is the lack of it that is the base of the Parkinson's disease. The dopamine agonists work alike, binding directly to the dopamine receptors, mimetising its action.
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