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Thanks!!! I hope she understands it better than I! I gave up physics at school at 11years old! Emma >At 06:38 AM 9/12/96 -0400, you wrote: >>A YAPP&Rs has been asking me about an apparent article written in the UK >>that likens the effects of coming off Cocaine (Cold Turkey)with the disease >>PD. She is now doing some research into this ( minus the cocaine!) and >>wonders if there is a knowledgeable person out there who knows anything >>about the connection ??? >>She knows of the MPTP story. Thanks... Emma >> >Dopamine and opiates latch onto the same receptors. When I had my PET scans >at Johns Hopkins the tracer used was a cocaine analog with some extra >nuclear particles in orbit about a carbon's nucleus (carbon 11). This also >makes anesthesiology more 'iffy' for PD patients than average. Nuclear >physics is not my bag! >WILL JOHNSTON 4049 OAKLAND SCHOOL ROAD > SALISBURY, MD 21804-2716 > 410-543-0110 >Pres A.P.D.A. DelMarVa Chapter >63 Dx1991 Symptoms 1971 > >