Alopecia and levodopa.

Alopecia Areata and Dermatoglyphics

Objective: To study of relationship between alopecia areata and finger print dermatoglyphic types in 100 patients with alopecia areata and in 100 controls. Methods: A case control analytical study was done on fingerprints of patients with alopecia areata. The control cases were older than 50 years old without any history of alopecia areata. Dermatoglyphical trials of total fingers were al...

Alopecia.

Levodopa and Huntington's chorea.

Two patients with Huntington's chorea are reported whose psychiatric and neurological symptoms greatly improved after treatment with L-dopa. In both cases the basal values of CSF HVA were markedly decreased, being increased by the treatment with L-dopa.

Alopecia mucinosa = ةصاحلا ةينيطاخملا Alopecia Mucinosa

Levodopa vs

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disease affecting the dopaminergic neurons of the substantia nigra pars compacta, which alters the neurodynamics of the brain by decreasing the ability of the basal ganglia to faithfully translate motor cortex signals. Levodopa is a pharmaceutical used to treat PD which is converted to dopamine after crossing the blood brain barrier. The project e...