Talk:Introduction to Parkinson's Science/Q Page 2

Outline for this subpage
Now implemented. See Resource page.

Outstanding points that could be included here or on Q Page 3:


 * The other neurotransmitters involved in PD especially glutamate and Gaba.)


 * Regulation and Storage of dopamine (vesicles, transporters)


 * Dopaminergic cells as pacemakers


 * Ionotropic and metabotropic neurotransmitters


 * How cells differ from one another (in structure and by tissue type)

User Purple61 said:
 * Does the body produce dopamine on demand or is there a reservoir of this chemical?
 * When you are on Parkinson's drugs - agonists or levodopa based ones or both - can you have an unused quantity remaining in your brain or does it all get used up or absorbed by the body?
 * My drug regime is 8.00am, 5 hours later at 1.00pm and then 5 hours later at 6.00pm. No top-up till the next morning.  I don't wake up feeling I need to top-up until a couple of hours later.  So was wondering if there is a unused residue of the drugs still lingering in the brain?


 * Thanks, Purple61, for the contribution. There are things to discuss about it and I shall write them on your User Talk page which I have had to create for you because you had not done so yet. So see: User:Purple61 and User_talk:Purple61