Title : The effect of entacapone (OR-611) on brain [18F]-6-L-fluorodopa metabolism: implications for levodopa therapy of Parkinson's disease.

Pub. Date : 1994 Jul

PMID : 8035933






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1 We used PET and [18F]-6-L-fluorodopa ([18F]dopa) to measure the effect of a peripheral COMT inhibitor, entacapone, on the extracerebral metabolism and subsequent striatal uptake of [18F]dopa. entacapone catechol-O-methyltransferase Homo sapiens