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Pharmacology of Parkinson's

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DRUG TREAMENT FOR PARKINSON'S DISEASE




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Parkinson's disease is a
progressive neurodegenerative disorder
of
the
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topaminergia nigra pars compacta (SNPC)
the substantia
neurons in that

generates dopamine to the striatum This disorder affects the strictur and the
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basal
substantia the
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the brain
parts of are
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- This disorder results
with the vote of coordinating movement in motor
dysfunction in
the
body .




The disease
pathognomonic feature of this is loss
of prgmented dopaminergia
substantia and untracellular inclusions called
~ curons
of migra appearance of
Lawy bodies
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↑ was first discovered by James Parkinson in 1817 when he called it

paralysis agorans (shaling Balsy)
.




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Parkinson's disease develops when the neurons
connecting the substantia
nigra
to the stratum
progressively degenerates -


Since the
dopaminergic neurons that
originate in the substantia nigua normally
GAA neurons located in the striatum
exert
inhibitory effects on
,
too little dopamine
well
results in more GABA ,
causing
inhibition
of
the thalamus as as
reducing
. This increased inhibition
to the motor cortex thalamo-
the
excitatory unput of the
cortical pathway suppresses movement .




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The also exert on
he re

,
without
sufficient levels of
dopamine ,
the production of Ach is uncreased which triggers a chain
of abnormal


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on the brain
by the use
of dopaminergic agents or
anticholinergic agents
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