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>From: WE MOVE <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Nobel Prize for Discovery of Dopamine's Role in Neurotransmission >Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 22:27:17 -0500 > >Dr. Arvid Carlsson, Department of Pharmacology, University of Gothenburg >was awarded the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology of Medicine for his >discovery in the 1950s that dopamine is a neurotransmitter in the brain >and that it has a role in movement control. Dr. Carlsson's work laid the >foundations for use of levodopa as a treatment for Parkinson's disease. > >Dr. Carlsson shares the prize with Dr. Paul Greengard and Dr. Eric Kandel, >two other scientists whose discoveries illuminated signal transduction in >the nervous system. > >A press release on the prize and the scientists and discoveries it honors >can be found at >http://www.nobel.se/announcement/2000/medicine.html > >Copyright 2000 WE MOVE >Editor: Richard Robinson ([log in to unmask]) > >This service is provided free of charge to the Internet community, >courtesy of WEMOVE.org. This document may be freely redistributed by >email only in its unedited form. We encourage you to share it with your >colleagues. > >E-MOVE archives, plus information on subscribing, are >available at http://www.wemove.org/emove. >To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to [log in to unmask], >with "unsubscribe e-move" in the message body. > >E-MOVE is a service of WE MOVE (Worldwide Education and Awareness for >Movement Disorders) >204 West 84th Street >New York, NY 10024 > >TEL 800-437-MOV2 >TEL 212-875-8312 >FAX 212-875-8389 >http://www.wemove.org > janet paterson 53 now / 44 dx cd / 43 onset cd / 41 dx pd / 37 onset pd TEL: 613 256 8340 URL: http://www.geocities.com/janet313/ EMAIL: [log in to unmask] SMAIL: PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario K0A 1A0 Canada