Blocking the negative effects of pyridoxine on patients receiving levodopa.
Blocking the negative effects of pyridoxine on patients receiving levodopa.
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阻断吡哆醇对接受左旋多巴的患者的负面影响。
DOI:
10.1001/jama.1971.03180220084025
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1971
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P. Papavasiliou
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作者:
G. C. Cotzias;P. Papavasiliou
To the Editor.— Duvoisin et al 1 reported that administration of pyridoxine may cancel the therapeutic and the side effects of levodopa. This was confirmed in several centers, including our own. 2 Consequently, industry produced and marketed a pyridoxine-free preparation (Larobec) which covers needs for vitamins in patients receiving levodopa. While continuing our experiments with the peripheral metabolic inhibitor D, L-alpha-methyl dopahydrazine or MK 485, 3 we noted that diurnal variations in performance could be controlled with orally administered combinations of inhibitor and levodopa. Such combinations have also diminished the striking postprandial reemergence of symptoms otherwise experienced by some of our patients. 2,3 We were thus encouraged to test whether the inhibitor blocked the adverse effects of administered pyridoxine. Pyridoxine (up to 100 mg three times each day) was given orally to seven patients for at least one week while they were in a metabolic ward and were receiving combinations