NIACIN DEPLETION IN PARKINSONIAN PATIENTS TREATED WITH L-DOPA, BENSERAZIDE AND CARBIDOPA
NIACIN DEPLETION IN PARKINSONIAN PATIENTS TREATED WITH L-DOPA, BENSERAZIDE AND CARBIDOPA
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10.1042/cs0560089
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发表时间:
1979-01-01
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LEES, AJ
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BENDER, DA;EARL, CJ;LEES, AJ
Benserazide and carbidopa, decarboxylase inhibitors used in the treatment of Parkinson''s disease, inhibit the enzyme kynurenine hydrolase in rat and mouse liver, causing reduced synthesis of nicotinamide coenzymes from tryptophan, and an increased reliance on dietary niacin. Pellagra might be expected as a result of the inhibitin of endogenous synthesis of nicotinamide nucleotides, but has not been reported in patients treated with either drug. The urinary excretion of N1-methyl-nicotinamide, a product of nicotinamide nucleotide metabolism, is reduced in patients treated with dopa alone or in combination with an inhibitor of peripheral dopa decarboxylase, to as low as 40% of the control value. Many of these patients could be classified as at risk of niacin deficiency, even if not frankly deficient. Patients treated with dopa plus a decarboxylase inhibitor, but not those treated with dopa alone, show a reduced excretion of xanthurenic acid, and an increased excretion of kynurenine, as would be expected after inhibition of the kynurenine pathway, and possibly indicative of marginal vitamin B6 deficiency.