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Thank you for one more excellent survey you have accomplished Murray.


Murray Charters wrote:

> Thanks for this insight Joao Paulo, to think otherwise would
> be a total bummer!
>
> I attended an educational meeting last year and the speaker
> was Dr. A. Rajput... His topic included toxicity and levodopa
> and he said that examination of the brains of people who had
> passed away (from natural causes) after long histories of levadopa
> therapy showed no evidence of levadopa toxicity. See refer. below...
>
> PMID: 9380042
> 1: Mov Disord 1997 Sep;12(5):634-8
>
> Is levodopa toxic to human substantia nigra?
>
> Rajput AH, Fenton Me, Birdi S, Macaulay R
> Division of Neurology, Royal University Hospital, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Cheers,
Joao Paulo - Salvador,BA,Brazil