{"title":"Sublingual apomorphine in the treatment of Parkinson's disease.","authors":"Jan Kassubek, Wolfgang H Jost, Johannes Schwarz","doi":"10.1007/s00702-024-02777-z","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Advanced Parkinson´s disease (PD) is often complicated by fluctuations of disability depending on plasma levels of levodopa. For most patients OFF phases with worsening of tremor and immobility, but also pain, depression, autonomic symptoms are troublesome. While adjustments of levodopa administrations can relief such fluctuations for some time, \"on demand\" therapies become more and more important. These \"on demand\" therapies should provide fast and efficacious relief. During the past years, new options for on demand therapies in PD-associated OFF episodes have been developed, including new formulations of levodopa and apomorphine to provide fast and readily accessible on demand treatment. In this narrative review, the challenges of the treatment of PD-associated fluctuations and OFF states are addressed, with a special focus on sublingual apomorphine (SL-APO) including the results from recent clinical trials.</p>","PeriodicalId":16579,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Neural Transmission","volume":" ","pages":"1209-1216"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2000,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Neural Transmission","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00702-024-02777-z","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2024/5/14 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"CLINICAL NEUROLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Advanced Parkinson´s disease (PD) is often complicated by fluctuations of disability depending on plasma levels of levodopa. For most patients OFF phases with worsening of tremor and immobility, but also pain, depression, autonomic symptoms are troublesome. While adjustments of levodopa administrations can relief such fluctuations for some time, "on demand" therapies become more and more important. These "on demand" therapies should provide fast and efficacious relief. During the past years, new options for on demand therapies in PD-associated OFF episodes have been developed, including new formulations of levodopa and apomorphine to provide fast and readily accessible on demand treatment. In this narrative review, the challenges of the treatment of PD-associated fluctuations and OFF states are addressed, with a special focus on sublingual apomorphine (SL-APO) including the results from recent clinical trials.
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The investigation of basic mechanisms involved in the pathogenesis of neurological and psychiatric disorders has undoubtedly deepened our knowledge of these types of disorders. The impact of basic neurosciences on the understanding of the pathophysiology of the brain will further increase due to important developments such as the emergence of more specific psychoactive compounds and new technologies.
The Journal of Neural Transmission aims to establish an interface between basic sciences and clinical neurology and psychiatry. It intends to put a special emphasis on translational publications of the newest developments in the field from all disciplines of the neural sciences that relate to a better understanding and treatment of neurological and psychiatric disorders.
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