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JOURNAL OF PHARMACOKINETICS AND PHARMACODYNAMICS
Volume 48, Issue 1, Pages 133-148Publisher
SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1007/s10928-020-09723-y
Keywords
Parkinson's disease; Levodopa; Dopamine kinetics; Basal ganglia; Denervation
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada [PGSD3, 462059-12]
- Fonds de Recherche du Quebec - Nature et Technologies [2016-PR-192198]
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Levodopa is the gold standard treatment for Parkinson's disease, but its effectiveness decreases with disease progression, leading to motor complications. Researchers developed a comprehensive model integrating pharmacokinetics, dopamine kinetics, and basal ganglia neurocomputational models to predict treatment response at different disease stages.
Levodopa is considered the gold standard treatment of Parkinson's disease. Although very effective in alleviating symptoms at their onset, its chronic use with the progressive neuronal denervation in the basal ganglia leads to a decrease in levodopa's effect duration and to the appearance of motor complications. This evolution challenges the establishment of optimal regimens to manage the symptoms as the disease progresses. Based on up-to-date pathophysiological and pharmacological knowledge, we developed an integrative model for Parkinson's disease to evaluate motor function in response to levodopa treatment as the disease progresses. We combined a pharmacokinetic model of levodopa to a model of dopamine's kinetics and a neurocomputational model of basal ganglia. The parameter values were either measured directly or estimated from human and animal data. The concentrations and behaviors predicted by our model were compared to available information and data. Using this model, we were able to predict levodopa plasma concentration, its related dopamine concentration in the brain and the response performance of a motor task for different stages of disease.
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