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acetylcarnitine and Parkinson Disease, Secondary

acetylcarnitine has been researched along with Parkinson Disease, Secondary in 2 studies

Acetylcarnitine: An acetic acid ester of CARNITINE that facilitates movement of ACETYL COA into the matrices of mammalian MITOCHONDRIA during the oxidation of FATTY ACIDS.

Parkinson Disease, Secondary: Conditions which feature clinical manifestations resembling primary Parkinson disease that are caused by a known or suspected condition. Examples include parkinsonism caused by vascular injury, drugs, trauma, toxin exposure, neoplasms, infections and degenerative or hereditary conditions. Clinical features may include bradykinesia, rigidity, parkinsonian gait, and masked facies. In general, tremor is less prominent in secondary parkinsonism than in the primary form. (From Joynt, Clinical Neurology, 1998, Ch38, pp39-42)

Research Excerpts

ExcerptRelevanceReference
" ALC (200mg/kg) lowered apomorphine-induced rotational asymmetry and reduced the latency to initiate and the total time in the narrow beam test, reduced striatal malondialdehyde (MDA), increased catalase activity and glutathione (GSH) level, prevented reduction of nigral tyrosine hydroxylase (TH)-positive neurons and striatal TH-immunoreactivity, and lowered striatal glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) and its immunoreactivity as an indicator of astrogliosis, and nuclear factor NF-kappa B and Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) as reliable markers of neuroinflammation."3.85Acetyl-l-carnitine protects dopaminergic nigrostriatal pathway in 6-hydroxydopamine-induced model of Parkinson's disease in the rat. ( Afshin-Majd, S; Baluchnejadmojarad, T; Bashiri, K; Kiasalari, Z; Roghani, M; Sedaghat, R, 2017)

Research

Studies (2)

TimeframeStudies, this research(%)All Research%
pre-19900 (0.00)18.7374
1990's1 (50.00)18.2507
2000's0 (0.00)29.6817
2010's1 (50.00)24.3611
2020's0 (0.00)2.80

Authors

AuthorsStudies
Afshin-Majd, S1
Bashiri, K1
Kiasalari, Z1
Baluchnejadmojarad, T1
Sedaghat, R1
Roghani, M1
Bodis-Wollner, I1
Chung, E1
Ghilardi, MF1
Glover, A1
Onofrj, M1
Pasik, P1
Samson, Y1

Other Studies

2 other studies available for acetylcarnitine and Parkinson Disease, Secondary

ArticleYear
Acetyl-l-carnitine protects dopaminergic nigrostriatal pathway in 6-hydroxydopamine-induced model of Parkinson's disease in the rat.
    Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie, 2017, Volume: 89

    Topics: Acetylcarnitine; Animals; Apomorphine; Behavior, Animal; Corpus Striatum; Dopamine Agonists; Dopamin

2017
Acetyl-levo-carnitine protects against MPTP-induced parkinsonism in primates.
    Journal of neural transmission. Parkinson's disease and dementia section, 1991, Volume: 3, Issue:1

    Topics: Acetylcarnitine; Animals; Carbidopa; Caudate Nucleus; Electroretinography; Female; Homovanillic Acid

1991